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Re: XSLT to Python script conversion?

From Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: XSLT to Python script conversion?
Date 2012-02-17 15:37 -0500
Organization University of Waterloo
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Matej Cepl  <mcepl@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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XSLT to Python script conversion? Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2012-02-13 12:20 +0100
  Re: XSLT to Python script conversion? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-02-13 14:34 +0100
  Re: XSLT to Python script conversion? "Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch@vrplumber.com> - 2012-02-13 11:28 -0500
  Re: XSLT to Python script conversion? Tim Arnold <Tim.Arnold@sas.com> - 2012-02-15 12:48 -0500
    Re: XSLT to Python script conversion? Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2012-02-16 18:17 +0100
      Re: XSLT to Python script conversion? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-02-17 15:37 -0500
        Re: XSLT to Python script conversion? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-02-17 21:53 +0100
          Re: XSLT to Python script conversion? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-02-17 16:11 -0500

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