Thanks for that, Gene & Michael,
Please do not think that I am in anyway anti-XSLT; quite the opposite,
and, as an xslt developer, making claim to being XSLT "Schema-Aware"
says in itself how much I love this technology.
The Symphony, http://21degrees.com.au/products/symphony/ ,
product looks like a really cool example of where XSLT can go, and it is
a pleasure to have drawn this link from you, Gene, as a result of my post.
Of course, one should not make blanket statements, as I did, without credible
reference. In the land of kangaroos and the singleton synchrotron,
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1991529.htm ,
the XSLT landscape is not presently roses for I.T. consultants.
A search on the main I.T. job site in Australia
http://it.seek.com.au/
currently yields very few job opportunities for XSLT-ers (which are not
duplicated adverts), and, Saxon, which is one of the few 2.0 compliant
products, sadly doesn't even get a single hit.
It seems to me therefore that the "steady stream" is just a trickle
in my neck of the woods. Accordingly I justify my stance the XSLT meme
needs a little more help in the marketing department.
Cheers
Justin
At 11:28 AM 31/07/2007 -0400, you wrote:
I have to agree with Michael here. What you are seeing are the web
developers migrating to discovering the power of XSLT on the web.
Most of these developers still think "OOP" is a sound that a coin
makes when it hits the water. Hopefully systems like Symphony
(http://www.symphony21.com) will get more exposure to the more
advanced web developers and the advancement of the language and it's
children languages can progress in a rate that's acceptable.
Gene Shepherd
On 7/31/07, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
Now that is not the fault of the W3C or the various Drs. and
other learned participants of the xsl-list, but, it does seem
to me that somehow the XSLT meme* is not replicating as we
would all hope for in the minds of the wider I.T. community.
It seems to me that it is replicating, and that we are watching the process
happening. There is a steady stream of pilgrims working their way up the
mountainside. The more people we see asking these basic questions, the more
evidence we have that lots of people are making this journey.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Justin Johansson
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