On 6/22/06, Gnatz, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...XSLT might be nice for small applications, but it does not scale up. So in general template matching is a misconception for larger applications, in my opinion at least...
My experience after seeing quite a lot of XSLT in various companies is that very often people write way too complicated things. Many people jump right in without studying the basic principles of XSLT, and end up writing procedural code with lots of xsl:if and xsl:choice where it's not needed and gets in the way. I've often reduced the size of customers XSLT's by a factor of 5 to 10 (which usually also makes them several times faster) just by applying the basic principles and especially using the full power of XPath in pattern matching. So I wouldn't be as affirmative as you are - XSLT is a very good tool...but, as all tools, especially when it's used in the right places and with the right training. Of course, this doesn't help you much if you've inherited a bunch of badly-written code... -Bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
