Subject: Re: [xsl] the future of xslt From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:21:21 -0700 |
I am not sure these statistics are useful at all. I have my own indicators. One is that this mailing list became visibly less interesting the moment Jeni Tennison ceased her active participation. Another is the reader interest in blogs -- for example my blog has more than 240 000 visits for a less than 2 years period. Probably other people will share the visits for their blogs? Another useful indicator would be how sought after are the books by such XSLT masters as Dr. Kay, Jeni Tennison, G. Ken Holman, Norm Walsh, Sal Mangano,... etc. Yet another indicator is the statement of Phill Wadler at the 2002 Oxford Summer School of Functional Programming that "XSLT is the most popular functional programming language". I also know a number of significant Web and content publishing applications used on a daily basis and providing contents to millions of viewers, that are very fundamentally XSLT-based. Probably the people engaged with these are happy enough (do not have significant problems or are not at all aware of the XSLT nature of the services they are consuming) so that they do not generate the noise that would put XSLT ahead in the cited statistics. Let's try to formulate and answer another question: Is/are there other, better than XSLT, tree-processing languages? -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM, James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > does anyone else find these graphs interesting? > > http://www.google.com/trends?q=xslt&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > (I knew I lived in the czech republic for some reason) > > anyhow, its interesting to see that jquery sometime late 2007 surpassed xslt > > http://www.google.com/trends?q=xslt%2C+jquery&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > xslt versus xquery shows that xquery is either so easy to learn that > no one needs to use google, or there is a lack of xquery content > > http://www.google.com/trends?q=xslt%2C+xquery&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > and just to see xslt in context with general web programming languages > > http://www.google.com/trends?q=xslt%2C+ruby%2C+php%2C+perl&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > OT: whats eating into php these days ... adding up python and ruby > doesn't seem to account for decline in searches > > Do any of these trends indicate anything with respect to peaking XSLT > adoption ? ... considering these numbers I wonder if XSLT 2.0 > adoption will be a very slow burn ? > > cheers, jim
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