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[xsl] A few gems from Michael Kay's talk at XML Prague 2014

2014-02-19 04:33:23
Hi Folks,

I am watching a video of a talk that Michael Kay gave at the XML Prague 2014 
last week. He is a fantastic speaker. Below are a few gems from his talk on 
XSLT.

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Measuring the success of XSLT 2.0
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What is the state of XSLT 2.0? There are mixed views on the success of XSLT 
2.0. Some people will tell you that there aren't any XSLT 2.0 implementations. 
Actually there are lots of implementations:

- Saxon
- Altova
- IBM Websphere
- Intel SOA
- MarkLogic
- XQSharp
- Frameless
- Exselt

There are far more implementations of XSLT 2.0 than there are, for example, of 
PHP and no one would tell you that PHP is a failure. Measured by the number of 
implementations, XSLT 2.0 is an enormous success.

See time 2:54:15 in: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAUPzeeW4Xg

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XSLT 2.0 applications
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People are writing big XSLT applications.

Here is a sample of the XSLT applications in the public domain: 

        DocBook has 230,000 lines of XSLT code 
        in 357 modules

        DITA has 75,000 lines of XSLT code
        in 255 modules

        TEI has 101,000 lines of XSLT code
        in 303 modules

Those are in the public domain. If you look at what the publishing house have 
or what the banks have, I'm sure you can find far bigger collections of XSLT 
programs.

People are using XSLT as a very serious programming language for writing big 
systems.

See time 3:01:55 in: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAUPzeeW4Xg

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