Saturday, 10 March 2007 @ 10:00
Lindsey Simon, Web Developer, Dishola/Google
Joe Orr, Dev, NYCircuits Inc
XSLT is one of the most exciting technologies to come out of the XML family. Unfortunately, its incredible power and associated complexity can be overwhelming to new users preventing many from experimenting with it or causing them to quickly give up in disgust. In fact, unless the method of teaching and the common style of use for XSLT is radically changed to make it more accessible, XSLT will be relegated to niche status like SGML and other powerful technologies.
— David Jacobs (http://www.xfront.com/rescuing-xslt.html)
Simon:
- Presentation: http://www.commoner.com/lsimon/SXSW2007-XSLT/
- Upcoming: Freja Formbuilder (http://www.formassembly.com/form-builder-v2.4/)
- Upcoming: AspectXML (browserbasedxml.com)
- Upcoming: GRDDL (“girdle”) – extracting RDF from an XHTML page by declaring namespaces for the doc
- Upcoming: Simile (simile.mit.edu)
Orr:
- Presentation: ???
- Serissa
- Tool that may save XSLT: LEO (Literate Editor with Outlines): it basically just simplifies editing – nothing TextMate bundles can’t already do.
- literate programming vs. javadocs
- Book: Michael Kay – XSLT 2.0 – “fill-in-the-blanks” method for XSLT is wrong.