David Krings wrote:
Hans Zaunere wrote:
Agreed - I'm still waiting for XSLT to take us by storm. And I keep that
Javascript turned off in my browser, since no web site should depend
on it
being available... right?
Both true. XSLT is indeed an awesome technology. The reason why it
doesn't catch on is that XML and XSLT is designed for machines to read
and not for humans. Just see how difficult it is for many to create
proper HTML!
There may not be a lot of XSLT on the web yet, but there's more than
you'd think; especially if you get to look behind the curtains. Many
more sites are using it internally than are exposing it publicly.
And in some fields such as publishing XSLT has been an absolute godsend.
It's much less heralded than PHP or Rails, but to me it's a far more
powerful and productive language for the uses for which it's intended.
That is, XSLT improves my productivity when doing XMLish things more
than PHP improves my productivity when doing Webish things. I'm not
saying XSLT is a general purpose web development language like PHP. It's
definitely true that the use cases for XSLT are somewhat more
specialized than the use cases for PHP. I.e. more people want to do
webby things than XML things.
Of course, if you really want to rock, try combining
XQuery+XQueryP+APP+a native XML database. Once the tooling matures a
bit, that's a stack that's going to make all previous web dev frameworks
look like PowerBuilder. Hmm, need a good acronym for that one: LAXQE
perhaps? (Linux+Atom Publishing Protocol+XQuery+eXist) Have to work on
that a bit. :-)
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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