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Re: [mention] Jon Hicks compares EE with TXP
hakjoon wrote:
I guess I’m the only one that actually likes XSLT. It’s a big selling point for symphony for me, because it’s a standard, you can use it on any platform, any programming language even on the client through javascript.
honestly i think if one were to take web design/coding seriously, after html and css, XSLT is probably going to be the future in webpage document templating. its all fine and dandy when TXP and EE use their own little sets of xml-styled tags but in the end, you’re probably way better off learning an actual language that, as hakjoon pointed out, is a multi-platform standard.
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Re: [mention] Jon Hicks compares EE with TXP
iblastoff wrote:
after html and css, XSLT is probably going to be the future in webpage document templating. its all fine and dandy when TXP and EE use their own little sets of xml-styled tags but in the end, you’re probably way better off learning an actual language
I’m a bit confused/thick in this regard so excuse my ignorance. I thought XSLT transformed one XML doc into another via sorting and searching and filtering and stuff? Surely one needs a system of generating a well-formed XML doc in the first place? i.e. some tag system… or a DTD at least? Perhaps I’m missing the point, which might explain why I don’t “get it”.
And XSLT still looks like it’s written by coders. Probably ok for you (and me, eventually, when my decoder ring/brain switches on) but I’d guess quite a few designers would be put off by the syntax compared with the little TXP tags. Just a guess.
Last edited by Bloke (2008-06-30 22:20:27)
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