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From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
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I agree. I was puzzled by this criticism. Surely it wasn't about the
encapsulation of logic in templates, subroutines, or (gasp) functions.
So is he unhappy about data-driven transformations? (Does he have a
better idea for this class of problem?)
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I suspect that a very effective cure for XSLT-phobia would be to require a
person to use the high-level, general-purpose programming language of his
choice, along with an XML API like MSXML or System.XML, to transform a
smallish, not too complicated XML document from one schema to another. Round
about unit testing time, I bet he'd be ready to take another look at XSLT, with
a little more openness to a language that looks a bit different from what he's
used to, but is making more sense every hour.
When I was teaching math, I found that almost no students are capable of
grasping the value of a method until they have first been subjected to having
to use an inferior method--and the more inferior the better (pedagogically
speaking).
Norm
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