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   RE: [xml-dev] XSLT and the 80/20 point (was RE: Tim Bray on "Which Techn

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Evan Lenz wrote:

>once
>you've understood the most fundamental concept of XSLT (how template rules
>work), it is a language that can be learned and comprehended in its
>entirety.

To bring it back to the 80/20 issue, there's a great deal you can do with
XSLT without learning it in its entirety. Reordering of sibling elements and
basic adding, deleting, renaming, and converting between elements and
attributes can be done with a small portion of what XSLT+XPath has to offer,
and this covers the majority of what many XSLT developers need. 

Bob DuCharme          www.snee.com/bob           <bob@  
snee.com>  "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii




 

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