XSLT to Python script conversion?
Ross Ridge
rridge at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Feb 17 15:37:57 EST 2012
Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:
>No, the strangness is not that bad (well, it is bad ... almost anything
>feels bad comparing to Python, to be honest, but not the reason I would
>give up; after all I spent couple of years with Javascript).
The XSLT language is one of the worst misuses of XML, which puts it way
beyond bad.
>The terrible debugging is one thing, and even worse, I just still cannot
>get over rules around spaces: whitespace just jumps at me randomly in
>random places and is erased in others.
I use explicit <xsl:text> nodes exclusively to avoid this problem.
Ross Ridge
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