Subject: [xsl] Re: XSLT model not "natural"? [was Re: [ANN] FreeMarker 2.3 as an alternative to XSLT] From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 08:30:28 +0200 |
Maybe it is very hard for babies to start walking. Shall we "protect" them from this difficulty and ensure they were easily crawling around all their life? Make a special tool/product to ensure this? ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL "Wendell Piez" <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5.1.0.14.0.20030627182516.02344808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > At 05:42 PM 6/27/2003, Mike wrote (about learning XSLT): > >I went up this learning curve myself about 4-5 years ago. I didn't find > >it easy. I never do find new concepts easy. I struggled when I first > >learnt SQL, when I learnt goto-less programming, when I learnt > >object-oriented programming - I even remember struggling the first time > >I had to understand subroutines. But each time, I've got to the top of > >the hill and never looked back. It's worth the climb. > > I should add that I also found it challenging -- but fun, and hence, for > all its challenges (I remember a fever-dream I had in which I climbed > around inside a node set until I'd figured out how to write a table-driven > generalized node-renaming transform) -- easy. > > And I was lucky. I had the expert guidance of a sophisticated private tutor > (my erstwhile colleague, Tony Graham), had some DSSSL experience (you think > XSLT is hard to get your head around, you should try DSSSL!), but never had > learned Pascal. > > The bottom line is, a great deal depends, as when learning anything new, on > your attitude going in. If you dread the prospect, it'll be hard. If you > expect to have fun learning how to get things done with a powerful new > instrument, it'll be easy. It's in the context of this awareness that I get > bugged by all the claims of how hard XSLT is: that only becomes a > self-fulfilling prophecy, for those unwary enough to believe it. > > Cheers, > Wendell > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML > ====================================================================== > > > 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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