RE: xslt core and intuition was RE: [xsl] Reference to variable cannot be resolved.

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:24 AM 2/17/2003, bryan wrote:
> >In my experience (learning and teaching) what makes XSLT hard is not
> XSLT
> >so much as it's the interference of preconceptions about the way
> >"computers" or "computer languages" work or "should" work.
> Comparatively
> >unburdened by years of experience writing procedural code, I've never
> found
> >XSLT particularly difficult, apart from a short list of "gotchas".
>
> I don't particularly like to go with the idea that expertise as a
> programmer hampers one in writing xslt, however I have been given strong
> indicators that this is so.

It's not something that can exactly be known; but my experience is that 
while it may not be true *in general* (the supposed correspondence between 
procedural programming habits and troubled XSLT), it's not altogether 
infrequent either.

So it remains a matter for speculation. Interesting how some 
"non-programmers", however, take to XSLT quickly and readily. (Albeit this 
also very much depends on the kind of XSLT being called for.)

Cheers,
Wendell



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