Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 02/04/2003 20.25: ...
IMHO, the template language which is closer to the optimum is XSLT but only with one change:
FORGET THE XML SYNTAX!
*chuckle* I see that your basicness is biting still ;-))
When you think your mental foundations are solid, it's the time when you have to understand if that solidity is helping you or it's becoming an obstacle.
Apart from the fact that it lacks brackets, and thus needs an extra transformation, what does this give us?
the beauty of the XSLT concepts without the mental drag of the xml syntax.
Once for all: managers would stop thinking that since it's markup, their html kiddies should be able to play with it.
XSLT is a full-blown programming language. Let's give it a real-man syntax.
[note, since stylesheet are compiled in memory anyway, the extra transformation doens't add any performance problems at runtime]
XSLT? I like it. For simple transformations IMHO it really rocks. With a relative small number of tags and some xpath it does almost all that is needed.
The cost of writing a stylesheet is exponential with time and with people involved. I want to solve this.
Do you remember at ApacheCon Europe, when the Xalan developers kept saying that XSPs were irrelevant because XSLT could do all? *chuckle*
Yes, and they have always been right and I've always known that.
Still, while XSP wasn't a perfect solution, even XSLT isn't perfect.
We should clear the whiteboard and converge the two worlds into one, taking the good part of both.
Stefano.
