Subject: RE: [xsl] questions about XSLT philosophy: how much is too much? From: "Kienle, Steven C [IT/0200]" <steven.c.kienle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:12:54 -0500 |
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ok, i think i've been properly chastised -- i'll get back to work > now. :-P I realize you are joking (:-P after all), but I couldn't let this slide. Asking questions like this is necessary. It may or may not make sense at the language definition level, but it really does make sense at the project level. A project which knee jerks to a given technology, without asking if it is the right application of that technology, is asking for problems and not really meeting the customer needs. And has been already stated often the difficult problems raised here are not only because of a difficulty with using or lack of knowledge of XSLT, but because someone threw an XML document format together without considering the downstream use of that data. Steve P.S. As an off-topic aside: To be honest, one of my favorite examples of knee jerk use of a technology is ebXML. "We need an XML based EDI data format so data can be easily transferred and handled electronically." But isn't EDI already electronic? Isn't EDI already standardized for a lot of transactions? And aren't there a ton of systems which support EDI and can even translate it into other formats? XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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