On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:27:02AM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> There were no questions about xslt in the last 1849 messages. I complain about
> it too. It is too complicated. A real programming language (Python) is much
> easier.

The original poster probably meant "lots of messages on other mailing lists."

XSLT makes sense as a client-side solution, where your browser
downloads some raw XML and an XSLT stylesheet that converts the XML
into an HTML rendering.  You can do this with Mozilla, for example;
try http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xslt/test.xml .  In this case XSLT
is the only transformation language you have, so you have no choice
but to use it.

But if the XML to HTML conversion is done on the server, then it
doesn't matter to the client what you use: XSLT, or Python, or Java,
or a mixture.  In that case you can just use whatever you like, or is
fastest to execute.

--amk