http://blogs.bluegumtree.co.uk/vista The view from down here is amazing Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:15:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://blogs.bluegumtree.co.uk/vista/2009/03/24/79 http://blogs.bluegumtree.co.uk/vista/2009/03/24/79#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:20:10 +0000 sheilaellen http://blogs.bluegumtree.co.uk/vista/?p=79 Jeni Tennison is an XSLT guru who shares her expertise unstintingly on paper, at conferences and online.  If you’re an XSLT programmer, Jeni needs no introduction; she’s probably helped you out sometime or awed you with an elegantly simple solution to what you thought was a horrendously complex problem.  She has a knack for it.  And this skill for simplicity and elegance in code is something I aspire to.  And that’s easier said than done in XSLT – no sooner have you matched a “/” and before you can say value-of,  you find you’ve applied templates to the descendant of an ancestor, sorted three ways, with a mode and priorities applied.  So I salute you Jeni and will spend at least some of Ada Lovelace Day refactoring in your honour.

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