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by Someone1234
4216 days ago
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As someone who has written a lot of XSL I completely agree. Just having a standard format which is XML-based which is able to take in XML and spit out: different XML, plain text (e.g. CSV, HTML, bespoke UTF-8 formats, etc), and so on is a wonderful idea and XSL does in fact accomplish it. But, yes, writing XSL is extremely painful. Much of it needlessly so. Although XSL 2 did fix some of my whines (DateTime library?!). I'm still legitimately annoyed (irrationally so) that indexes start at 1 and not 0 in XSL. The way template matching works is clunky. I think the first answer in this Stackoverflow question illistrates my point well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3127108/xsl-xsltemplate-... |
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