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"Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...> wrote: | I think that the XML-based syntax of XSLT gives significant benefits for | the parts of the language that are concerned with generating output | trees. I disagree. It would have taken genius to devise something even more cumbersome than xsl:element and xsl:attribute. (Once the decision had been taken to force tag syntax regardless - at the time everyone was gungho on XML-izing everything in sight - I can see how the other parts were shoehorned in. Having painted oneself into a corner, there are only certain loads of dynamite that get just an exit and not a collapsed wall too.) | If you are doing everything using xsl:element and xsl:attribute, rather | than using literal result elements and attribute value templates, then I | can see why you find using an XML-based syntax a pain: you're getting | all of the costs and none of the benefits. Truth be told, I don't use XSLT much. It doesn't meet the 80/20 split for what I need.
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