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 @lettosprey that’s a pretty interesting perspective on the quality we can expect from AI. To this day, the xslt libraries for Java (the most widespread enterprise language) only work partially. While you can solve most problems with time, better avoid trusting the documentation, if you need to change XML directly. 7 comments
@avirr @ArneBab @lettosprey i had to support a system written by a senior IT academic for their faculty that used XML files to store the data, and xslt to translate it into HTML on demand. I still wake up screaming. (Guess which language it was in) @aeduna what helped me when I had to fight with xslt the third time (or so, transforming geo XML stuff) was to think of it as a very verbose, very inconsistent lisp. It didn’t make the actual work easier, but it felt better. “See how much nicer this could be if it were a lisp” ☺ Also it’s then much easier to picture the transformations. @ArneBab @aeduna @avirr @lettosprey https://cranesoftwrights.github.io/resources/color/colorex.htm DSSSL would like to have a word. @kephalos I actually already used sxml->xml ☺ https://dthompson.us/posts/rendering-html-with-sxml-and-gnu-guile.html But not at work, only for hobby projects. Works pretty well. @aeduna @avirr @ArneBab @lettosprey A friend disappeared for 4 days. People were concerned enough to track down and call his wife. Turns out his work had a system like that and a typo interacting with odd data caused it to spit out an insane mix of HTML and JS. And the entire site went down. Took 6 people three and a half days to find it. |
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@ArneBab @lettosprey I had to fight with xslt, what a nightmare