Subject: Re: [xsl] questions about XSLT philosophy: how much is too much? From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:33:02 -0500 (EST) |
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Jeff Kenton wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > having read two of the most recent threads -- how to find the > > largest value less than a threshold, and how to find local extrema -- > > i'm starting to wonder whether there's a point when someone has > > the right to say, "no, that's going beyond what XSLT was meant > > to do." > > > > There are two parts to this. First, there are things that are > reasonable uses for XSLT. Some are hard right now, but solutions will > be added to XSLT 2.0 -- grouping, regular expressions and date handling > are examples. Some other things can be done, but will always be a > little difficult. Then again, there are things that XSLT will never do > well. Yesterday's thread about converting Cobol (or maybe Cobol Data) > to XML probably goes in that category. i had already gleaned that much from the previous discussions. i was just intrigued by the problems that people were trying to solve with XSLT that seemed to be *really* pushing the bounds of what XSLT seemed to have been designed for, that's all. and it was hard to ignore the parallels with what i saw had happened with UNIX shell scripting. rday XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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