{"id":12,"date":"2007-03-10T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-03-11T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T14:34:15","slug":"why-xslt-is-sexy-ken-10am-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Why XSLT is Sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday, 10 March 2007 @ 10:00<br \/>\nLindsey Simon, Web Developer, Dishola\/Google<br \/>\nJoe Orr, Dev, NYCircuits Inc<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8212; David Jacobs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfront.com\/rescuing-xslt.html\">http:\/\/www.xfront.com\/rescuing-xslt.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Simon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoner.com\/lsimon\/SXSW2007-XSLT\/\">http:\/\/www.commoner.com\/lsimon\/SXSW2007-XSLT\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Upcoming:   Freja Formbuilder (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.formassembly.com\/form-builder-v2.4\/\">http:\/\/www.formassembly.com\/form-builder-v2.4\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li> Upcoming:   AspectXML (<a href=\"http:\/\/browserbasedxml.com\/\">browserbasedxml.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li> Upcoming:   GRDDL (&#8220;girdle&#8221;) &#8211; extracting RDF from an XHTML page by declaring namespaces for the doc<\/li>\n<li>Upcoming:  Simile (<a href=\"http:\/\/simile.mit.edu\/\">simile.mit.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Orr:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presentation:  ???<\/li>\n<li>Serissa<\/li>\n<li>Tool that may save XSLT:  LEO (Literate Editor with Outlines):  it basically just simplifies editing &#8211; nothing TextMate bundles can&#8217;t already do.<\/li>\n<li>literate programming vs. javadocs<\/li>\n<li>Book:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/XSLT-2-0-Programmers-Reference-Programmer\/dp\/0764569090\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/102-5867001-5324932?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1173597901&#038;sr=8-1\">Michael Kay &#8211; <em>XSLT 2.0<\/em><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;fill-in-the-blanks&#8221; method for XSLT is wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}