Heath Frankel wrote: > Peter, > The key is that by using XSLT we don't need to use one particular software > component and as you say, everyone can execute an XSLT script in their > chosen environment where the output should be almost the same. > > We have done many XSL transformations from AOM XML and they are not as > complex as you might expect. In fact XSLT is designed exactly for this > purpose and does make it relatively simple to do such things. The only > people that think XSLT is complex and unmaintainable are those that are not > use to using XSLT, just like those that are not use to using Effiel, Perl, > etc, everyone has their preferred language. Luckily, there is quite a large > and growing number of developers that are XSLT literate, whether they like > the language or not. > > > This is why I built the publishing system in Ant + XSLT. You could change it to NANT is a dotnetty type or you could rewrite the ant scripts in perl etc all the while w/o changing the real analysis code which is in XSLT.
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