Comment by gioele
11 years ago
How many languages can tell you that byte X of output has been generated from byte Y of input going though such and such steps?
When programming in XSLT it is great to fire up a debugger (let's say oXygen), run your transformation, click on the wrong output and being able to go step-by-step backwards.
How many languages designed before 1999 (yeah, XSLT is 15 years old) can claim to be able to do so?
> How many languages can tell you that byte X of output has been generated from byte Y of input going though such and such steps?
Having written tranformations in Python that needed to carry that information... How do you do that in XSLT? (And do you think it's worth writing new code in XSLT?)
Mercury (1998).