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Re: Wishes for XSL revisions ...
At 10:47 AM 12/27/01, Mark wrote:
> > 2. The target audience for XSLT is not computer scientists or even
> > programmers, but Web designers
...
>I regret that my opinion of the abilities of web designers is
>determined by a single data point....
Just as before print, we had no authors, editors, copy-editors,
fact-checkers, catalogers, typographers, or booksellers, but only writers,
librarians and readers (usually rolled into one as a "scholar"), it may be
that we will soon be seeing whole new categories of work, including both
new kinds of designer, and specialists in transformations of structured and
semi-structured data sets.
The skills of what we now call a "web designer" -- who may be brilliant
communicators in visual media without being particularly good at abstract
reasoning -- may or may not be appropriate for much of this work.
Cheers,
Wendell
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