RE: [xml-dev] Re: XSLT and the 80/20 point (was RE: Tim Bray on " Which Technologies Matter?")

Except in hindsight.  Everyone is an expert at that.
XML was designed "in hindsight".

Hindsight matters.

len

From: Mike Champion [mailto:]

3/18/2002 1:07:40 PM, "Evan Lenz" <> wrote:

> On the other hand, difficulty of comprehension should not be a
>criterion. XSLT is a difficult language, because its most powerful
>mechanism--template rules--is new and unusual to many programmers, and
>therefore hard to learn.

Fair enough.  I'll gladly concede the point.  Thanks for reminding us 
that something can be difficult for the uninitiated to grasp, but 
still hit the 80/20 point.