On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Jeff Kenton wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   having read two of the most recent threads -- how to find the
> > largest value less than a threshold, and how to find local extrema --
> > i'm starting to wonder whether there's a point when someone has
> > the right to say, "no, that's going beyond what XSLT was meant
> > to do."
> > 
> 
> There are two parts to this.  First, there are things that are
> reasonable uses for XSLT.  Some are hard right now, but solutions will
> be added to XSLT 2.0 -- grouping, regular expressions and date handling
> are examples.  Some other things can be done, but will always be a
> little difficult.  Then again, there are things that XSLT will never do
> well.  Yesterday's thread about converting Cobol (or maybe Cobol Data)
> to XML probably goes in that category.

i had already gleaned that much from the previous discussions.  i was
just intrigued by the problems that people were trying to solve with
XSLT that seemed to be *really* pushing the bounds of what XSLT
seemed to have been designed for, that's all.  and it was hard
to ignore the parallels with what i saw had happened with 
UNIX shell scripting.

rday


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