Having now written a fair bit of XSLT, all I can say is that this is such a grandiosely melodramatic image as to be ridiculous. It’s as if someone was composing an intricately elaborate image of how writing Perl was like herding cats that chase mice running over wires in order to produce just the right line noise to get a working program – or some such absurd preconceived notion.

The problem is, I’ve never seen introductory material that manages to do proper justice to the language in its unmatched expressiveness and conciseness when manipulating XML documents. Most people get blinded by the superficial verbosity of the syntax as expressed in XML – which I hate as much as anyone –, and never realise the beauty and elegance of the semantics that the syntax expresses.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: What's Your Mental Image of XSLT? by Aristotle
in thread What's Your Mental Image of XSLT? by Cody Pendant

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