Jon Scott Stevens wrote: >on 5/1/02 11:58 PM, "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Which basically boils down to "let's just invent our own little language >>and try to get enough people bragging about it" >> > >It isn't a little language... It is Velocity templates using a well >known/used API (DOM4J). > >>Come on, this isn't serious anymore. Sorry to say, but in the real >>world, there are more XSLT than dvsl users. >> > >Just like there are more JSP users than Velocity users. > >Still doesn't mean that JSP is better than Velocity. > XSL is hardly comparable to JSP.
> >>Wasn't this entire thing >>about community building? So what do we really want: using technology we >>invented on our own, alienating possible new users, or sticking to >>common standards? >> > >Using technology that is well supported, developed by a community of people >who are not motivated by commercial or academic interests (instead, motived >by real world requirements). > >Heck, I bet you haven't even tried DVSL, so don't knock it until you try it. > Now he's done it (steven). XSL suites my needs fine. I've no reason to learn one that is the Apache version of proprietary. When I have a specific need for it other than "gee lets make so and so use DVSL", I'll use it. This isn't such a case. Standards don't have to be the BEST solution or the ONLY solution but I tend to like using things that don't require me to learn all of your pet projects Jon. I'd end up having no time but to join a "Cult of Jon's Pet projects" and follow you around like the next Richard Stallman wondering "but what did it mean" when you belch. XSL is not like JSP or EJB there is nothing horribly wrong with it. I think its reasonable for anything that you say "QUICK use this" to at least attempt to support standards. -Andy > >-jon > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
