Re: [xsl] XSLT 2 processors

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

On 2/9/2012 6:22 PM, Andrew Welch wrote:
> > Where do you use it Mr. Welch?
>
> Various companies and sectors, including aerospace (BAE), health
> (MDConsult), finance (JPMC, Interactive Data), publishing (Elsevier,
> Macmillan), telecoms (Vodafone)... it's all pretty much the same work,
> just the text nodes are different.

FWIW, these all fall into the category of "publishers" in a large sense, 
since they are publishing even if only in support of other activities.

Keep in mind that two of the most important sectors supporting the 
development of SGML in the 1980s and 1990s were military-industrial, and 
academic computing (big research libraries and their ancillary 
activities). What do these have in common? They both need their data to 
outlive their machines, so they have to avoid proprietary lock-in either 
to platforms or even (at the further edges) to sets of functional 
requirements.

This is the conceptual foundation of layered systems based on 
descriptive markup, aka (in its current form) XML/XSLT. For many kinds 
of work the engineering expense is arguably not worth it (partly because 
it requires a rare combination of skills to do well). Other kinds of 
work are more or less impossible or unsustainable without it.

Cheers, Wendell

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