Doing stupid things with XSLT

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It takes a little to wrap your brain around functional languages such as XSLT. In this presentation, learn why XSLT was designed the way it was, how to do common tasks and how to make XSLT do things that it was never intended for, culminating in what is perhaps the most phenomenally stupid use for XSLT imaginable.

Stream: XML

Paper: Doing stupid things with XSLT

Having been cast from the Garden of Eden^H^H^H^HAcademia, Deborah Pickett has had to earn her living writing technical documentation in the Real World. She still gets to program a bit on the side. Currently her projects usually involve the letter "X" (XML, XSLT) or "P" (Perl, publishing), though regrettably that also means daily fights with Windows "X" "P".