Re: [xsl] In Search of People Who Know About and/or Use the Document Function

["Karl Stubsjoen" <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I personally use it for my inline xml needs, when creating an
external xml document or appending this xml to the source xml just
doesn't seem to be the right fit.  I've also used the feature to
generate self-documented stylesheets, pretty cool I thought ;)

On 9/6/07, M. David Peterson <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As per
> http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=203214&t=1189092213&page=1#comment2232964
>
> > "You'd be hard pressed to find many people, even in the web development
> > community, that either is aware of, or uses, document()."
>
> Of course I completely disagree with this statement.  I think it would be
> quite easy for me to locate such individuals.  And it's statements such as
> this that lead me to believe that there is an honest misunderstanding of
> just how prevalent the usage of XSLT is within the larger development
> communities of the world.
>
> If any of you have a moment and wouldn't mind sharing with the Opera
> developers your own feelings on the above my hope is that this will aid in
> providing a better understanding as to just how misguided such a belief
> truly is, while at the same time encouraging them to take this matter much
> more seriously than they seem to believe they need to.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> /M:D
>
> M. David Peterson
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