Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-16 Thread Brian Johnson
With a well-designed set of transformation, you won't have to update every one of your stylesheets for a single attribute change. For instance, I use the xsl:copy tag to simply copy as-is any element that I'm not interested in doing something with in a particular stylesheet. On Thursday, Decemb

Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Steven Noels dijo: > Kasper Nielsen wrote: > >> For a short synopsis at school I'm looking for points to areas where >> cocoon and stacking an endlessly number of XSL transformers on top of >> each other falls short. You know stuff like how difficult it is adding >> a new attribute to an XML elemen

Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Tony Collen
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: > Why did you chuckle? As a member of the London perl mongers group (I drink > with them and waffle on the mailing list) I know a large number of people > happy to work with Mason. Well, I know exactly nothing about Mason itself, but perhaps the title of

Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Alex McLintock
At 16:02 12/12/02, Tony Collen wrote: On a side note, I chuckled to myself when I saw this book in the store: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhtmlmason/ I think it helped me appreciated what Cocoon does just a little bit more :) Why did you chuckle? As a member of the London perl mongers g

Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Tony Collen
On a side note, I chuckled to myself when I saw this book in the store: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhtmlmason/ I think it helped me appreciated what Cocoon does just a little bit more :) Tony Tony Collen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota, Minneapo

RE: Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread robert_hitchins
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Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Yves Vindevogel
I agree with Chris. In every language you can create a mess. Two rules of advice for Kasper on programming: 1) Be a lazy coder. Think first how you can write as few lines of code as possible. Not only will you have effecient code, you'll have code that you can maintain. 2) Stop using copy & p

Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Steven Noels
Kasper Nielsen wrote: For a short synopsis at school I'm looking for points to areas where cocoon and stacking an endlessly number of XSL transformers on top of each other falls short. You know stuff like how difficult it is adding a new attribute to an XML element, and make sure it's copied alon

Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Kasper Nielsen
- Original Message - From: "Chris Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Why cocoon sucks > > > > >For a short synopsis at school I'm looking for points to areas where coc

Re: Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Faulkner
> >For a short synopsis at school I'm looking for points to areas where cocoon >and stacking an endlessly number of XSL transformers on top of each other >falls short. You know stuff like how difficult it is adding a new attribute >to an XML element, and make sure it's copied along in all your 200

Why cocoon sucks

2002-12-12 Thread Kasper Nielsen
Okay this is a question not a statement! For a short synopsis at school I'm looking for points to areas where cocoon and stacking an endlessly number of XSL transformers on top of each other falls short. You know stuff like how difficult it is adding a new attribute to an XML element, and make s