Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you give me a (good) use case where XSLT would not suffice?
Complex string manipulation. > >Of course the point is simplicity of use. I am not sure we will gain that > >with XSLT. We will need something taylored to ANTs needs. > > Feel free to create a new language - xslt has the advantage of being > standard and well known. Sure it is not very pretty or simple but every > alternative is complex. If you have looked at any of the alternate systems > that aren't just a morass of scripts (ie automake, imake, etc) they all > have that complexity/power balance. Velocity's markup is dirt-simple. > Now look at systems who have tried to do xslt but more simply - theres a > few around (Cocoons XSP at xml.apache.org is an example). Now how many of > them achieve any measure of simplicity over XSLT - at what cost do they do > it ? (ie loose power, completely new/foreign etc). Anakia is MUCH more flexible that XSLT, and simpler to boot. Daniel
