I'm a professional computer scientist and I had exactly the same
experience as Brad. And I'm not sure your comments here help. I think
what you mean to say is Brad can take his existing HTML pages and
convert them to use XSL.
At least that was my best guess after a quick look at it.
With respect,
Steven
On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Michael Dykman wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008 4:29 PM, Bjorndahl, Brad
<brad(_dot_)bjorndahl(_at_)thermofisher(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi,
I went to your google page. I hope you understand that my comments
are meant to be constructive and supportive.
I read a lot of your description of Dexter and I simply don't have
a clue about what it does. Maybe that's because I don't have a clue
in general; I am just a 'semi-programmer' learning as I go and on
my own. Still, nowhere do you explain what someone can get from
your product and there are no examples. It is all very intriguing
and hints at very interesting things, but I just don't get it. I
certainly don't want to 'dis' someone for putting a lot of effort
into something for this community. I think there are a lot of us
amateurs reading this list so, for us, can you step back from your
work and try to describe it from an amateur's point of view?
Also, at the risk of being labelled a snob, I need to tell you that
most places where you put "it's" (= "it is"), you should put "its".
I'm not a snob; I'm a technical writer. That's another reason I
have difficulty with your descriptions.
Brad
Thanks for the feedback.. I appreciate that it is not the easiest
thing to describe..
At it's simplest, it allows a user to generate XSLT stylesheets from
example input and bind it with arbitrary XML data.
For an example, have a look at
http://dexter-xsl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/docster.html.
It looks like a normal page fresh from the dsign shop (although my
designs are ugly.. not the point). View the source and you will see
special attributes attached to many of the elements. From this
'source'., I use Dexter generate the XSLT which formats the rest of
the documentation, like.
http://dexter-xsl.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/index.xml
Does that help at all?
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