Re: [xsl] XSLT in the job market

[Richard Fozzard - NOAA Affiliate <richard.fozzard@xxxxxxxx>]

Max,

I sure hope your poll is multiple-choice, since we sure have multiple uses for XSLT!

1. (a), (b), (d) and (e): code generation
2. (a) and (e) SQL

We use XSLT on the server (i.e. Saxon) to do both static and dynamic generation from:

a. Grails (i.e. Groovy/Java) web services with an RDBMS persistence layer (i.e. Oracle, MySQL)
b. Large collections of static (both local and web-accessible) XML files in various dialects

Outputs include HTML pages, various other XML dialects (e.g. KML), JSON, plain text and simple SQL (inserts) and Java code (beans)

I'm probably forgetting some other uses we've had, but those are the primary ones.

--Rich

Richard Fozzard, Computer Scientist
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Max Toro said the following on 07/24/2013 01:21 PM:
> Hello XSLT lovers,
> I have a little poll about XSLT in the job market, your input is much
> appreciated.
>
> 1) Primary uses of XSLT
> a. Web scraping
> b. View engine in MVC
> c. End to end XML architecture (XHTML, XForms, XSLT, XQuery, Native
> XML database)
> d. Static content generation (e.g. HTML, PDF)
> e. Other (please specify)
>
> 2) Most common related skills
> a. Java
> b. Sharepoint
> c. Umbraco
> d. XSL-FO
> e. Other (please specify)
>
> --
> Max Toro