Subject: RE: [xsl] <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote> From: "Brian Martinez" <Brian.Martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:03:03 -0600 |
> -----Original Message----- > From: Nic James Ferrier [mailto:nferrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:38 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote> > > Andreas Peter <info@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Quoting Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > >> Yes. Not just programming languages but CSS, HTML and Word documents > >> too. > > > > Unfortunately I am one of those "self-taught amateur programmers". But > > the point is that those poeple have to start somewhere, too. > > And I agree XSL programming looked very easy at the first sight but if > > you want to get deeper into this programming language it is of course > > very difficult, particularly if you do not have any programming > > experience. But Thank God this list exists :-) > > Hey! I'm a self taught amateur too! (Actually, I'm not sure who > isn't). I'm a self-taught professional, at least with respect to XSLT. ;-) I learned the language on-the-job in 2001 and then spent the next three years programming almost exclusively in it, building the front end of a major travel site entirely in XSLT (with a lot of client-side scripting and some Java thrown in for good measure). I spent a couple of years away from XSLT but I now work at a shop where my XSLT skills are put to good use, which is cool, but now I wish we'd migrate to XSLT 2.0 so I can do more on-the-job learning! > I think XSLT is quite good for non-programmers, it's programmers with > some experience of other things that find it really difficult I've > found. I'd say this was true of my initial experience with XSLT, just because of the paradigm shift it required. But I can't imagine a programming newbie wanting to start with XSLT unless they have a need or desire to work with XML from the outset. Now that I've spent some time with Ruby, for example, I think it is an excellent choice for a first language. cheers, b.
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