Subject: Re: Leventhal's challenge misses the point From: "Guy Murphy" <guy-murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:13:35 +0100 |
Hi Mike. The issue to my mind is simple. Firstly we are having a discussion here. We are all making assertions based on experience. Chants of "where's you evidence" can start getting childish in a forum such as this. It isn't a court of law, it's a discussion forum. I could be just as childish and say prove JavaScript is easier. What I can assert is that there is less to learn with XSL than there is with DOM+Script. XSL makes querying easier than with DOM. And it removes the need to handle itteration and recursion. These are two areas that are very tricky for somebody new to process description whether declarative or imperative. Removing management of iteration and recursion alone to my mind is basis for claiming XSL is easier than say JavaScript. And when you say JavaScript I assume you meant ECMAScript. And can I ask, are you assuming also that ECMAScript would be mandated as the standard means for describing transformation? If not must we also learn Python, Perl and TCL. I am not being pedantic here, but you do realise that for a lot of developers Python will be their first language of choice for working with XML? And for a lot of Unix developers Perl will be their langauge of choice if having to script. If we persue the path of DOM+Script, we are probably going to be facing DOM+Python+Perl+ECMAScript. So which is easier to learn... XSL? Or DOM+Python+Perl+ECMAScript? Cheers Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 4:53 PM Subject: RE: Leventhal's challenge misses the point > > Firstly, I do not believe that non-programmers can't use XSL. I *am* a > > non-programmer (and the fact that I subscribe to this list > > doesn't change that) and I *have* learnt (well.. or am learning) to use > XSL. > > But then, non-programmers can learn programming too. What we really want is > evidence that non-programmers can learn XSL more easily than they can learn > (say) Javascript. > > Mike Kay > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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