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> "Even though, because it’s functional, it will be restricted to be used only
> by people with CS degrees, and not by
> random Joes and Janes who write web sites.
Many people have reported that to use XSLT successfully, you either have to
have a CS degree, or you have to be a non-programmer. The people who struggle
are those who want it to be like the only programming language they have used
in the past. Functional programming comes much more naturally to
non-programmers than to those whose minds have been warped by imperative
programming.
Having said that, we do our best in XSLT to hide the technicalities: a
non-programmer isn’t going to think of the apply-templates mechanism as a
recursive descent with polymorphic function despatch, and they aren’t going to
think of xsl:iterate as a fold operation taking a function as its argument.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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