Subject: RE: [xsl] qualitative decline of xsl-list questions From: "Ben Robb" <Ben@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:24:09 -0000 |
> XSLT is also being used a lot more now than it was even a year ago. There are maybe 20 or 30 people who have been contributing to this list for the last 3 or 4 years (some more than others! Speaking of which - is Jeni just really busy, or is she being distracted by some shiny new technology? *grin*). Since XSLT has become "mainstream", the *average* quality of posts has gone down. This is only to be expected, since the people who were doing things with XSLT in 1998/9 were people who are actually interested in technology for technology's sake, whereas the bulk of people coming into the technology now are doing it because they have been told they must use XSLT. However, there are still enough interesting posts to make up for the dross (though coming in every day to several hundred emails makes it more difficult to find them...) I've had an "interesting" time in the last couple of years trying to get people in my company to understand what they are doing when they are coding in XSLT. Most of them have come through the ranks as self-taught HTML coders who learnt a bit of JavaScript, and then went on to slightly more advanced languanges, before coming across XSLT. I've had to run internal training sessions to get them up the (not small) learning curve that goes with learning XSLT (or, for that matter, any FP language). Most other companies do not have someone who can do this, so the same questions I get while training people tend to get asked to the list. > A lot more XSLT projects, but still not too many pure "XSLT developers" > on anybody's payroll that I can see. From what I've seen out in the > field, many IT managers are throwing these XSLT projects into the laps > of people who know nothing about XSLT. Going back to Chuck's point about pure XSLT developers - I've been using XSLT for nearly 4 years, we as a company have developed (and maintain) many sites which use XSLT, and yet still I spend most of my time writing in other languages. There are very few people on this list who work for commercial companies who do spend the bulk of their time using XSLT afaik... Mike Kay, Jeni (though she had to start her own company), and maybe a few others. Rgs, Ben XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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