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RE: [xsl] [possibly off topic] Adoption Rates and Future

2011-11-03 09:00:58
Perhaps your former employer is advertising the opening the wrong way.
Compare "Candidate should have experience with XML, XSLT, XForms" with
"Opportunity to go deep with technologies at the heart of the emerging
semantic web." (And I'm sure someone who's actually good at writing this
sort of fluff could do MUCH better than I can.) 

Programmers, it has long seemed to me, are peculiarly afflicted by
buzzworditis when it comes to what kind of work they think they want to
do.

One class of applications for your list could be browsers. They all
support XML and XSLT for client-side transformations--or have for about
ten years. And lots of people, programmers included, seem to think
they're cool, or sexy, or whatever the positive adjective du jour is.

Norm Birkett

P.S.: I know I'm being a bit glib here, so I want to be careful to say
that I appreciate all the excellent and serious points that have been
made in this thread, and don't wish to detract from them in any way.
It's just that there is also a glib/stupid angle on these issues, which
I guess I'm especially qualified to cover. :)

On 02/11/2011 19:54, Hank Ratzesberger wrote:
Hi,

Please forgive me if this is off topic, or point me to another
list,
(or just ignore)

At a previous job, I built a application/website that for the most
part was
entirely scripted in XML -- eXist database, XSTLT, XForms. Having
moved
on, they could not find much interest in filling the job and likely
the
application will get ported to "LAMP" with limited features and the
job role more of a data analyst.

Having built an entirely open source (and free) application using
W3C
standards with several excellent books for training and helpful
mailing
lists, I am wondering why there should be any lack of interest,
though
granted the university system has some challenges hiring from the
private sector when it comes to IT.

Perhaps it isn't clear the XML is a technology stack, not simply a
file format. When sitting on J2EE applications, it is using the
Java
character encoding, real number and date handling -- I18N and
various floating point issues are consistently handled.

Is there a good list of XML/XSLT/etc. based applications? Where
can reference as examples that use the technology?

Thank you,
Hank

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