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I use them for different purposes.

ECMAScript for validation and DHTML techniques, with XSL for customising the
interface. I love the idea of being able to simply apply an XSL doc to XML
depending on who wants to look at it and what they want to see. I just makes
the interfaces easier to manage.

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Steven

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----- Original Message -----
From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: What will be the future improvements of XSLT?


> At 02:39 PM 9/15/99 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> >
> >> I think also that somebody who can manage HTML with a little
JavaScript,
> >> even given a small subset a XSL, will surely be puzzled by such a
> >> declarative language.
> >
> >Why should this be?
> >
> >I find XSL far far less puzzling than javascript. Am I really weird?
>
> You might be weird, but not because you find XSL less puzzling than
> JavaScript.
>
> I've found (mostly from reader comments) that people seem to like working
> with either procedural (i.e. JavaScript) or declarative (i.e. XSL) but
> there aren't a lot of people who are willing to put the effort into
> shifting from one to the other.
>
> (There are some people who are comfortable with both, but in my experience
> they are the minority, though most of them do seem to inhabit this list.)
>
> Most of the Web developers I work with who are building XML-oriented
> applications already have JavaScript and/or Java skills, and find XSL
> occasionally useful at best, hair-pulling frustrating at worst.
>
> Basically, I can't recommend learning XSL if you already have experience
> working with the DOM and/or procedural approaches - unless you have a
> particular project where it seems especially appropriate or a manager who
> thinks XSL _is required_ for XML. The rest of the world I tell (these
days)
> to try XSLT and see what they think of it. If they like it, great; if not,
> they'll probably find it easier to get help with the procedural approach.
>
> Simon St.Laurent
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>
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