Subject: XSL for non-programmers From: "Eric E. Cohen" <cybercpa@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 21:49:23 -0400 |
> I am a non-programmer who had quite an easy time with XSL. You can do a > usability study on me if you like :-) I will echo this. I firmly believe you can teach almost anyone basic XSL for displaying, sorting, and filtering XML files. I do not think the same is true for VBA, VB, JScript, VBScript, Python, OmniMark, or Supralapsarianism. There is understandably very little decent _current_ IE5-oriented XSL tutorial literature available for anyone - and even less DOM-oriented materials available for "non-programmers." I will echo Linda van den Brink's message: I can understand XSL, and I can teach XSL to non-programmers. All of the DOM training materials I have found include only snippets and are oriented for experienced programmers. There are no step by step guides - DOM by Example - "cut and paste and follow the instructions to use in your own spreadsheet." Every tutorial and article I have seen assumes you can take an example of a partial sub-routine and incorporate it into your work. I am not programming illiterate - I do enough VBA to do Access programming. But I have not seen enough illustrated DOM tutorials at a level I can understand to incorporate XML in Access or Excel. XML is sweeping the land. But it will reach the mainstream when we move away from having to compile your own software or configure your own Java environment to run the software. And XSL will be more popular when the dust settles and Crystal Reports will let you create XSL from an XML data file. Just my 2.2 cents, as adjusted for inflation. <ec /> www.computercpa.com/xml2.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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