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Tue 2006-10-17 17:00 |
XSLT does not merely make the baby Jesus cry, but actively seeks out his ancestors and anally violates them with pointy brackets. I swear I'll never, ever call COBOL verbose again.
<xsl:if test="$pain > $painthreshold">
OWMAKEITSTOP
<xsl:else/>
Subtract 1d20 from SAN and write another line of XSL
</if>
...and then I get to code data import tools at $ORKPLACE that have to generate XSL on the fly to apply to the 50MB+(!) XML files some idiot provider has decided to send our way because the equivalent 200kB of CSV just isn't cool enough these days.
Meanwhile, large companies begin to seriously suggest XML-processing FPGAs as the answer to all this lunacy, which seems somewhat akin to attempting to help a drowning swimmer using a wave machine.
Then again, XML does have one huge advantage: it's not EDIFACT. |
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