Antonio Petrelli wrote:
2007/12/2, Tom Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Personally, I !!HATE!! writing xsl. I try to avoid it at all costs
+1
XSLT is horrible, counter-intuitive, verbose and probably useless for webapps.
In Struts 1, projects like StrutsCX and STXX are failing miserably.
+1... a few years ago I was involved in a project that was 100%
XSLT-based, and that wasn't even client-side processing, which is 100x
worse (performance-wise if nothing else)... it just did some database
queries, constructed some XML from the results and then ran it through a
transformation engine with an appropriate XSLT template to generate the
HTML sent to the client... seemed like a good, flexible idea at the
time, but once it was done we couldn't switch technologies fast
enough... difficult to develop, difficult to maintain and ultimately
nowhere near as flexible as we thought it would be.
I think XSLT still has its place when dealing with systematic
transmissions where there's an XML format mismatch, or when transforming
from say XML to CSV or something like that, which I've done too with
better results, but for a webapp front-end generation system? Not
something I'd be interested ever doing again, whether I had to write the
code or not, that's for sure.
Antonio
Frank
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