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Re: [xsl] A beef with XSLT Sometimes too complicated

2006-07-14 05:41:01
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
"Jack" == MrDemeanour  <mrdemeanour(_at_)jackpot(_dot_)uk(_dot_)net> writes:


Jack> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
"Michael" == Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> writes:

In principle, you could use XSLT with a different expression language from XPath - this just happens to be non-conformant.

Michael> It's not non-conformant if it it's done using the Michael>
Michael>
extensibility features of the language:
Michael> <YPath:value-of select="ypath-expression"/>
Good point. I hope there's no demand for it though :-)

Jack> Really??? I find XSLT itself reasonably lucid; it's XPath Jack>
that I find obscure and hard-to-remember.

Really. Speaking as an implementor, I don't want to have to implement
 another expression language.

As an implementor, you don't; see MK's earlier post.


But I don't find XPath obscure at all.

There ya go. No doubt my brain was incorrectly wired-up by The Implementor.

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Jack.


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