[BNM] XML / XSLT

[Stewart Birch]

Cheers folks,

I'm intrigued about it from the view point of a front end developer - anyone
else had to use it?

On 3/13/07, Thayer Driver <Thayer at chinwag.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but I used to use it when I
> was helping to develop the Sky Open Platform for all the press red stuff
> UpMyStreet used to do.
>
> It *is* fairly straight forward.  Fairly.  The weirdest thing I found as
> a scripter by trade, was that it doesn't have to happen in any
> particular order.  I never really got my head round that.  You could
> write the parts to execute in a relatively random order.  I guess it's
> because it's more a transformation layer than a functioning one.
> Personally, I really didn't enjoy using it - I begged to go back on PHP
> which I did after about a month (phew!).  It just gave me no pleasure
> really as a programmer.  But as a self confessed scripter and perl fiend
> that's probably understandable.
>
> We used to use it as the final transform layer after data had been
> passed through a perl script from the DB, from what I can remember.
> This was back in 2001 though, and my memory is pretty hazy.
>
> Hope that helps in some way!
>
> T
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of
> > Stewart Birch
> > Sent: 13 March 2007 13:57
> > To: Brighton New Media
> > Subject: [BNM] XML / XSLT
> >
> > Hello all
> >
> > so I've been sniffing around w3schools tutorials about XML
> > and XSLT and was just wondering who amongst us has experience
> > of need to use XSLT a lot - it seems ( and I tread carefully
> > here ) pretty straightforward but in my present employment
> > I'll never have the chance to play and was hoping to see some
> > real life examples.
> >
> > Birch out
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