----- Original Message ----- From: "S Woodside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: Re: deprecate XPS
> 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 When i proposed axkit as the method of delivery for a web delivery of a project (XML, Apache, Perl), there was a fair amount of acceptance. I had pointed the technical manager to the axkit site, and he found that xpathscript was the perferred method of delivery and xslt was downplayed (yes it was some time ago), he killed that proposal. Since an ASP type of delivery was all that was 'available', he felt that including an additional learning curve to the mix (ASP'er to learn apache, perl or to have perl programmer learn web stuff like the ASP'ers..) did'nt put them further down the pike. They went for an IIS based ASP SqlServer solution instead. I didn't take the project. Yes it went over budget, and still isn't delivered properly and no they aren't satisfied. The technical manager at this point won't consider Apache and/or Tomcat as better alternatives for his problem. Most of the perl programmers have left for greener pastures. the good ones left early. Yep XPathScript scared him away... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
