On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:28:29AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > >>>>> "H" == H S Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > H> That would mean 95% of non-trivial XSLT stylesheets would need to be > H> rewritten... > > Or perhaps the XSLT language itself needs to be rewritten. [snip]
Yes, that was my hidden motive. :-P Personally, I think XSLT is crap, although XPath is kinda cool. Somebody should invent a functional equivalent of XSLT minus the idiotic verbosity, and keep XPath. But who am I kidding, the entire XML syntax is painfully verbose. It's a chore both to read and write. (Yeah, yeah, I've heard the argument that it's supposed to be read only by machines. So why are so many programmers still writing XSLT by hand? Plus, if you want machine readable, go binary...) <insert off-topic rant here> T -- Give me some fresh salted fish, please.