Re: spot/remove repeated elements in XML documet

Interesting. It kind of seemed like it vanished from my radar at least a few
years ago. There are always good uses for new (or old as the case may be)
ways to do things.

I remember there being one or two particularly vexing issues with it. The
exact details aren't coming right to mind, it was 5-6 years ago now. I just
seem to remember trying to do some things we wanted to do were nigh onto
impossible at the time, but turned out to be easy with XSLT. Might have had
something to do with character sets. Honestly that's a bit too vague to be
highly useful, but it is hard to recall exactly. I seem to remember
something to do with character sets was involved, so it may be one of those
'perl 5.8.x makes that a non-issue' kinds of things.

Anyway, I will check out XPS2, we still do a lot of content generation with
perl and XML. AxKit may be moribund, but its spirit lives on!

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:53:28AM -0500, Tod Harter wrote:
> > In days gone past any number of people, myself included, did webapp work
> > using AxKit. It was a great tool, but I cannot recall being exceedingly
> > pleased with XPathScript. In fact I always found it to end up being a
> really
> > awkward module to use in practice. There were various 'phasing' problems
> > with it IIRC. Certain things turned out to be inordinately difficult to
> do
> > or had to be done in non-obvious ways.
> >
> > Towards the end of my AxKit days things seemed to have settled down to a
> > situation where basically you generated XML from a 'provider' and just
> hit
> > it with XSLT and XPathScript seemed to kind of fall by the wayside. Of
> > course other people maybe were more fond of it than I was.
>
>         Well, I know at least of a person who was fond enough of it to
> adopt and maintain it for the last few years.  :-)
>
>        I'll not argue that XPS is a wee bit of an acquired taste and
> not everybody's cup of tea (I'm biased, not deluded).  But since the
> AxKit days there have been lots of improvements that -- or so I hope --
> polished some of XPS's rough edges.
>
>        Not to say there's not still a lot of corners sharp enough to
> cut unsuspecting fingers, mind you.  One of the things that is still
> hard to do is to manage large stylesheets.  But I'm working on
> that, and a decent system should appear with XPS2.
>
>        Which in turn means that, in order not to repeat mistakes
> of the past, I'm quite interested to know what you considered to
> be awkward when you were using XPS, and what where the phasing problems.
> So, if you feel so inclined, I'd love to hear you expand on those points.
> And the invitation holds for everybody.  If you ever used XPS and shook
> your fist the heavens, now is the time to rant about it. :-)
>
>
> Joy,
> `/anick
>



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