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Subject: RE: syntax feedback From: "Lawton, Scott" <slawton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:45:02 -0500 |
> > Funny, I've shown it (the public draft, of course) to many > people and got > > nothing but good response. Clearly it all depends on how > you present it. > > Speaking as someone who's been working with a nonprocedural styling > language since '89: It _definitely_ depends on how you > present it. Of course it's more than that. I spent a solid 7 days working with XSL and I longed for the simplicity/power of real variables, real if/then tests, real subroutines, etc. Granted I'm working with a prototype implemention of a first Working Draft -- but I'm still concerned about the direction that XSL appears to be heading. I've also done some transformations using JavaScript & the DOM; that's still pretty crude at this point and I'm not advocating that as a better solution. It may well be both desirable and possible to create a sufficiently powerful and friendly declarative syntax -- but it's unlikely to happen if people just dismiss the concerns expressed on this list. Scott XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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