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in thread What's Your Mental Image of XSLT?

I'm getting a faint, distant hint of an inkling that not everyone likes XSLT or even XML...

XML is a fairly decent platform neutral way to express hierarchical data. XSLT is a decent way to express--again in a platform neutral way--transformations on hierarchical data. Performance is an open issue.

Martin Fowler has another take on XSLT. See http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MovingAwayFromXslt.html.

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by Willard B. Trophy (Hermit) on Oct 12, 2003 at 13:53 UTC
    The really great thing about XSLT is that at least it's not DSSSL. DSSSL is basically Scheme with embedded CSS-like constructs. It, unlike the bagpipes, smells as bad as it sounds.

    The really, really great thing about XML+XSLT is that you can just blat them at the client's browser and, for sufficiently correct values of "browser", you get rendered content. Transformation too slow? Get a proper computer, pal, it ain't our servers.

    All markup and associate transformation languages suck; they, by definition, have to. After all, in order to fit your abitrary data into a structure that anyone else can understand, you've got to pack in a wheen of redundancy, convention and plain old hope to make sure the message gets through.

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