I think XML/XSLT is the future and we are just a little ahead of
our time here. The "steep" learning curve has, I believe, a bit to do
with the fact that we are now at a fairly primitive and basic level
compared with where this can/should/may go eventually. In a few years I
think you'll see more mainstream products having a "Save As" kind of
feature that will split the data and the XSL into two different sheets
(or something like that!) and more non-techs will be storing their data
in XML.
At my job, we use WordPerfect. The online "help" shows really
cool looking extensive XML and XSL support. (Actually doing it is
giving me a headache though so I am still coding in Notepad, Cooktop,
etc.) So, while I applaud WordPerfect for being ahead of the times in
their vision, I wish they had a more understandable implementation.
(It's probably just me or the fact that I don't get to spend more than a
few minutes here and there playing with it and not the implementation,
but....)
Anyway, with cheap disk space and lots of available bandwidth, I
believe you will see more and more data exchange going to XML - but hey,
who knows. For the time being, I find it a lot of fun and it's helping
me to be very productive so I will stick with it.
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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
hnorris
norris
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:02 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Consulting Market?
Adam & Brian -
Thanks very much for your in-depth replies - really appreciated! I got
very interested in XSLT when I decided to create a totally interactive
J2EE application front end using XLST and Apache ECS to dynamically
generate my entire HTML user interface from my Java code :
(bean processing logic --> ECS XML packaging --> apply
XSL transforms from within Java --> XHTML )
I found this approach vastly more flexible and far
less code than using JSPs or other technology. So I'm surprised that
XLST isn't used much more widely - I'm guessing that the relatively
steep learning curve to using its more sophisticated and powerful
capabilities is primarily what is impeding its mainstream adoption.
- Holten
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