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• Subject: RE: xsl:if to find the existence of an element
• From: "Phil Fuhlman" <pfuhlman@D...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:48:51 -0500
• Thread-index: AcHgvqYfMxoQVKwBTRiQia3m/BvBTwAAiMLg
• Thread-topic: xsl:if to find the existence of an element

That's ok, it's socially acceptable behavior in RPLs
<LOL>

Seeing "if" in an XML transform makes me want to write a
celsius to farenheit conversion in SQL :) <ok, I'll stop now>

</pff>

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:dehora@e...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:33 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  xsl:if to find the existence of an element


 
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I've got that string sprinkled all over my Code In Real Programming
Languages too, my double bad. >Doh!<

Bill de hÓra


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Fuhlman [mailto:pfuhlman@D...] 
> Sent: 10 April 2002 19:26
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  xsl:if to find the existence of an element
> 
> 
> The two character string: "if" ... <LOL>
> 
> </pff>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@n...]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:38 PM
> To: Phil Fuhlman; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  xsl:if to find the existence of an element
> 
> 
> > With all due respect, and since you asked, IMHO, this may be a
> > good  example of where XSL is *maybe* the wrong tool and you
> > may want to  consider using a 'real programming language', ie.
> > anything from  VBScript, JavaScript, Perl, Python on up to
> > C/C++, Fortran or Cobol. 
> 
> What is it about this example that makes you think XSLT is
> unsuitable?  
> 
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
> home: Michael.H.Kay@n...
> work: Michael.Kay@s...  
> 


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