[microformats-discuss] In need of an explainer: How "soft" is "too soft'?

[Ryan King]

On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:

> By the way, have you seen the XPath expressions in Brian's code? If
> anything, they demonstrate that XPath is not the best tool for the
> job.

I think Brian may agree with you here. :) I think he chose XSLT for  
its cross-platform-ness*.

/me runs off to be sure that Brian's on the list

> It may be the only viable tool at the moment, but it wasn't bulit
> to flexibly handle of the space-separated attribute values out of the
> box. Maybe it's time we summon XSLT extensibility.

-ryan

* Which is much like Java's cross-platform-ness: http:// 
www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/2255/2255.html.