Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Hello World - outreach From: David Rudel <fwqhgads@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:24:06 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Ideas welcome. Would it make sense to start with considering what prevents people from using XSLT for projects that yearn for it? I have a very limited view on what this is, but from what I can tell, there are basically 3 things: A. A misguided CW as to XSL's ability based on XSLT 1.0 B. The purely psychological antipathy engendered by its XML format. Some people prefer programming languages that look more like English. C. (In some sense reverse to B): the purely psychological antipathy caused by its verbosity: Some people prefer magic variables and ultra-pithy instructions, and use the ternary operator all the time... they see an XSLT Script, and even before their eyes glaze over from the XML notation, their brain shuts down from thinking of all the typing they are going to have to do. (IMO C is just silly... even aside from IDE help, I spend a lot more of my time QAing and debugging a script than actually typing the thing.) I wonder how hard it would be to create some limited "Pretty XSLT" variant that used more eye-friendly syntax and was converted to real XSLT through parsing. -David -- "A false conclusion, once arrived at and widely accepted is not dislodged easily, and the less it is understood, the more tenaciously it is held." - Cantor's Law of Preservation of Ignorance.
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