Going from Perl to XSL?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 24, 2002 @08:43AM from the my-wrists-hurt-just-thinking-about-this dept.

linderdm queries: "I am a perl web programmer who has taken a new job that requires me to do web 'programming' using XML, XSL, and Oracle XSQL. My minor experience with XSL so far has been horrible! It is so hard to do things that were very easy in Perl (looping!?!) and just seems incredibly verbose. I am curious to find out what the Slashdot community's experience has been with web programming in procedural languages (Perl, Java, etc) then switching to tag based XML/XSL. Am I wrong to be trying to do procedural programming with XSL?"

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Re:XML is not a programming language by dimator · 2002-04-24 09:13 · Score: 4, Funny

It is open, and powerful, it's open, and open.

That's all well and good, but is it open ?

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python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
Re:Going from Perl to XSL... by omarius · 2002-04-24 10:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Bullshit. Basic is obviously completely optimised for writing AD&D Character Generators on the Apple ][e platform. I mean, duh, you didn't know that? ;)
-Omar@poke