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On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:28:26 -0800, Charles White <chuck@t...> wrote: > I think I made a fair inference, and I would also argue that XSLT isn't > unapproachable to the average XML developer. I tend to agree with Dare here. XSLT requires some mental gymnastics that are difficult for ordinary procedural programmers (such as moi, to be honest) to get used to. I used to think I was just particularly dumb on this score, but I've heard from plenty of XML newbies (and, ahem, a few veterans with a couple of beers under their belt) who just run into a brick wall when they try to do something non-trivial in XSLT. I'm thinking that I think my condition may be fairly widespread, and for what it's worth, XQuery's approach seems much more easily understandable to at least this one XSLT-challenged person. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with XSLT, just that having a roughly equivalent technology that is more approachable by a conventionally trained developer (XQuery for SQL folks, a Javascript or X# with built in XML support for procedural folks, whatever) might indeed make XML more popular as a data model/syntax to be exposed rather than hidden behind wizards and GUIs.
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