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Subject: Re: [xsl] Processing inner elements
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:35:24 -0500
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At 06:25 AM 12/30/2006, Abel wrote:
There's much more to it, of course, and XSLT has quite a steep learning curve.
In my experience (and mind you, I teach this stuff), the XSLT
learning curve may be a bit steep for some, at the beginning, but
it's not high. You learn how templates work (as you suggest) and the
hard part is over. From then on it's a smooth ascent -- at least
until you start trying to solve problems the language wasn't designed for.
But for whatever reason, many people teaching themselves XSLT don't
bother to learn how templates work. Maybe they assume that there's
nothing to it (they would be wrong). Then they find the language
intractable and difficult. But blaming XSLT for that is like blaming
power-saw manufacturers for making their blades disc-shaped. (They're
so hard to saw with!)
At least the OP had the sense to intuit that what he was missing was
very basic. He called it "obvious", though it's not (unless you've
seen similar things before). Once you'd taken it in, however, much
else becomes so.
Cheers,
Wendell
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