Re: <xsl-script>

Subject: Re: <xsl-script>
From: "Matthew MacKenzie" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:49:14 -0700
It doesn't really matter what we individually choose to use for XML
processing...BUT, this is an XSL list...so naturally people are going to be
biased towards XSL.  Personally, I just use Perl...and will until XSLT
solidifies.  It is just too much trouble re-reading the spec all of the
time.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: <xsl-script>


>
> At 17:24 12/05/1999 , Paul Prescod wrote:
>
>   | Rick Geimer wrote:
>   | >
>   | > A sample in my favorite language, without a function library :-)
>   |
>   | Cheater. Anyhow, I think you helped to make my point and you might
well
>   | have intended to. For those that don't recognize Rick's favorite
language,
>   | it is a sophisticated and expensive language designed specifically for
XML
>   | processing. In other words, it is like a proprietary XSL on steroids.
Its
>   | existence demonstrates that ordinary scripting languages are really
not as
>   | easy to use for this stuff as text processing "4GLs".
>
> Why is this cheating?
>
> Just because some of us choose to use a well-tested,
> highly-functional system that is here now, and does
> everything XSL aims to do ... :-)
>
> Seriously, though, I do think that XSL needs to
> prove itself against systems such as Omnimark.
>
> Particularly since Omnimark LE is free, and can
> probably do 95-100% of everything that has been
> written in XSL so far.
>
> Yes, the full copy of Omnimark is very expensive.
> But when you factor in all the real costs of
> using other tools, I think it stacks up pretty
> well.
>
> How many hours have people spent chasing
> the XSL spec now, and finding ways of making
> code work in broken implentations?
>
> And XSL will never match the full functionality
> of Omnimark.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
>
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