Andy Ross writes:
> Jonathan Polley wrote:
> > Jon Berndt wrote:
> > > Just because something *can* be done doesn't mean it *should* be!
> >
> > Actually, I was going to say that it was another solution in search of
> > a problem.
> 
> I honestly thought it was a joke, but the website looks serious enough
> to believe.  Good grief.
> 
> But it's not the first -- XSLT is a full XML-based programming
> language, thankfully tailored to a much smaller problem area.  And
> XSLT is still a horrific monster, IMHO.
> 
> I still remain dumbfounded at the number of otherwise bright people in
> this world that believe that needlessly gluing together two useful
> technologies results in improvement.  What happened to encapsulation?
> It's not just for programs anymore. :)

The only thing I can possibly see is that they want to have some sort
of gui point and click graphical visual programming thingy and then
they can dump out the actual result as xml, but the developer would
rarely if ever actually look at the xml????  Of course, that's just me
trying to make sense of it. :-)

Curt.
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