At 08:43 AM 6/7/01 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> XSLT is crap! > >I wouldn't go that far, but you know XSLT far better than I do.
Well - I should qualify - XSLT gives the user enough power to do almost anything. With standard extension mechanisms it became a complete programming environment (ie can now do generation as well as transformation). Consequently novice users hack it up so badly and incomprehensibly and I used to have to provide support for such people ... *shudder* ... hence I no like it anymore ;) >>>If we have some static templating mechanism I strongly wish that we >>>brand it as "this is not Ant". >> >> right > >Look, it only took a guy to step up and ask, what we are actually >talking about, to make us agree 8-). Thanks, Roger. True - but I am fairly sure that we already knew that (at least to a degree). Currently ant specifies a sequence of operations. We add in repetition (ie foreach) and selection (ie if) then we have just invented an XML programming language ;) Something that was a declared non-goal of ant. Sure it thus means that we no longer need projectref/templating or anything like that but it everyone pays for this regardless if they wanted it ;) Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
