On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Ihe Onwuka
<ihe(_dot_)onwuka(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
but Graydon ...the problem here is "hello world"....
Here's Alan Kay http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
Somewhere on that page is the quotation
"Simple things should be simple complex things should be possible"
Piecing together a few different things you have said in different
threads and in different posts, I realize what you mean is "We are
talking about extracting test from a node, which should be as simple
as 'Hello World' for XSLT."
If that is true, then I would say once again that it is simple in XSLT:
<xsl:value-of select="(path to node)"/>
Again, none of these dialogues arising from "text()" have anything to
do with simple things being complex. They have to do with a frequently
misused construct in the language.
Here "misused" doesn't mean "will give the wrong answer most of the
time." Here "misused" means "should be avoided because
A. There is a better way to do it.
B. Occasionally in some contexts and with some inputs, it will give
unexpected/undesirable results."
Using that understanding of "misused," I would say all modern
languages have frequently misused constructions.
-David
--
"A false conclusion, once arrived at and widely accepted is not
dislodged easily, and the less it is understood, the more tenaciously
it is held." - Cantor's Law of Preservation of Ignorance.
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