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Re: advocating XML
- From: Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>
- To: Paul T <paul@pault.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:27:52 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Paul T wrote:
> You have used XSLT as a general purpose language. There are some
> people who do that. They do that for fun, I think, because those who
> have real-life experience in maintaining XSLT systems should know
> that it eventually turns into nightmare. For many reasons. Most of
> the reasons why XSL programming is harmful, have been explained by
> Mr. Leventhal 2 years ago (and I admit that at that point of time I
> was blind enough not to understand what he was talking about.)
Do you have a pointer to Mr. Leventhal's explanation?
> Not only you'd write this set of converters faster ( because you be
> using a general-purpose language *which xslt is not* ), but what you
> produce will be *correct* , easy to *debug* and *really*
> error-prone.
You didn't really mean what you just wrote, did you?
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