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Extensible Stylesheet Language

ExtensibleMarkupLanguage

• Fowler:MovingAwayFromXslt --MartinFowler
  • via http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000333.html --Martin Fowler hates XSLT too
  • It's easier to hack some procedural script that does the transformation than to use XSLT. Ruby or Python will do.
  • For complex transformation XSLT will be it, again!? (see DocBook, e.g.)
    • maybe not

• Why has XSLT never seen the popularity of many other languages that came out during the internet boom?

Alternatives

NiceXSL

• http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2005/06/06/nicexsl-xsl-without-the-screwy-syntax/
  • http://nicexsl.sourceforge.net/
  • http://community.moertel.com/pxsl/ --Parsimonious XML Shorthand Language -PXSL