RE: [xsl] Design Issues in XSLT

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

At 2:43 PM -0400 7/10/02, Paul Brown wrote:

> I wish I knew a location to quote for the classic quip (which I 
> attribute to Knuth) "Premature optimization is the root of all 
> evil."  If XSLT is a compelling architectural choice for your 
> application, then you should use it; if not, you should use 
> something that you're already familiar with.
Donald Knuth, "Structured Programming with go to Statements", 
Computing Surveys 6 (1974): 261-301
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