Re: deprecate XPS

[S Woodside]

The problem is that people look at XPS and they say "ew, it's an ASP-style language" and they take off. I think there's actually more people out there who are getting into XSLT and grokking the power of it. XPS is kind of a step backwards from the whole separation of content and logic that AxKit is all about, and XPS might scare people away when they see it.

simon

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:07 PM, Matt Sergeant wrote:

On Friday, Jan 31, 2003, at 18:35 Europe/London, S Woodside wrote:

Hey Matt, how would you feel about deprecating XPathscript? I think maybe it's detracting from the overall architecture of AxKit, because it's really promoting the mixing of content and logic in a way that I don't think AxKit really signifies. XSLT doesn't /really/ do that, and XPS only does it to the extent that is absolutely required to do dynamic apps.

just a thought, but I think it's confusing to new users to see XPS there. I know I was confused (but it became clear to me that XPS was to be ignored, at least for me... it's not necessary)

Never going to happen. New users get scared of XSLT, and XPathScript is a nice gentle introduction to XML processing.

Sorry ;-)

Matt.

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