Weighing in on XSL / Standards

[John Cowan]

David Megginson wrote:

[statement that XSL is "at least two orders of magnitude more
complicated" than CSS1]

Gak, what a thought.  Can we really use tools that differ by
a complexity of 100 from other tools?  Consider the idea of
a programming language 100 times simpler than C, or 100 times
more complex than Standard C++.  Can the mind really grasp
such a thing?

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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