RE: [xsl] super basic xsl question

["Mark Lundquist" <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> I've seen this practice in stylesheets written by beginners who
> don't know
> how apply-templates work, and who then rely on value-of to get
> their output
> -- and who then discover they have to suppress the output of the default
> traversal (which this does). This can get really tangled and obscure:

Those are the people that say "XSLT sucks! I tried it once, but it is really
tangled and obscure."

>
> This accounts for what I like to call the "Taoist" character of
> XSLT. Think
> Yin and Yang. Most programmers are used to Yang processing (what
> in XSLT we
> call "pull"). Learn to rely on Yin. Use the Force, and the document will
> transform itself with minimal intervention from you.

Nice :-)

-ml-