Hi,
At 05:43 AM 2/3/2010, Ken wrote:
It was a revelation to me working on a country-wide deployment of
XML (the UBL standard in Denmark) when my client was informed that
tens of thousands of Java developers wanted to look at the
information only as filed-in data structures and not as XML. I
don't know how that can be changed.
In the project I cited earlier XSLT drove all of the steps up until
the end delivery until a last-minute change prompted the Java
developers to inject themselves in the process because they refused
to leverage the existing XSLT to add the fix.
How can Java programmers be convinced that XSLT is an appropriate
language for XML?
I can't answer this question, but I think part of the problem has to
do with the difference between a 3GL language like Java and a 4GL
language like XSLT (if you accept this characterization). Given the
difference, the choice can be seen as an either/or -- you use one
approach or the other -- or as a both/and -- each approach has
affordances and capabilities that make it appropriate for some subset
of tasks, with an interesting grey area between where either could
work and tradeoffs have to be considered, as well as, perhaps, a
remainder where neither is a good fit.
The problem is that these questions are rarely assessed from a point
of view that isn't already biased one way or the other. People work
with only partial information: they know only what they know. Also,
we have trouble learning, not only because of emotional resistance or
simple incapacity (old dog syndrome), but simply out of lack of time
and energy to invest.
Are there other 4GL languages complementary with Java, which Java
programmers learn to rely on, and whose strategic and practical
advantages they appreciate?
Cheers,
Wendell
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