David,
M. David Peterson wrote:
Dr. Kay also has an XSLT 2.0 book that can be preordered from Amazon
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764569090/qid=1086468757/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-3934922-7293706?v=glance&s=books).
Its obviously not available now so if your consideration is for the short
term then this obviously doesn't help. If its for the long term though
you're good to go.
I will look forward to it.
Being someone who has gone through the mental transition from procedural to
declarative/functional styled programming I can assure you that, while it
does take some effort, its not as big of a deal to make the transition as
people think it is. The upside is enormous and the effort fairly minimal.
Its DEFINITELY worth the effort. With that said...
I quite agree. I would much rather have the serious programmers make
the effort to learn XSLT, but as a consultant my control is limited.
Having the department-oriented business rules in JavaScript does mean
that the programmers have less of an excuse not to maintain it.
I am also looking forward to your port of Saxon to .NET. I am sticking
with Java for the cross-platform support but those VB programmers are
more likely to accept a .NET solution.
Barry