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Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 10:09:06 am PDT #8759 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Maybe.


tommyrot - Sep 05, 2006 10:12:28 am PDT #8760 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, can I just email you a test html document (that has xml, xsl and javascript) with a description of what I want to do?


Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 10:13:49 am PDT #8761 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Sure, I'll take a look at it.


tommyrot - Sep 05, 2006 10:26:01 am PDT #8762 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, insent to profile addy. (I sent from my work email account, not my profile addy.)


Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 10:53:24 am PDT #8763 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I'm having a deep sense of deja vu here.

Your organization will jump through some really elaborate hoops to avoid using t xsl:parameter won't it?


tommyrot - Sep 05, 2006 10:55:39 am PDT #8764 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, I was getting the deja vu too.

Anyway, I'm trying to hack what our ex-consultant wrote for us. Problem is, my xsl knowledge is limited....


Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 11:03:20 am PDT #8765 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It looks like your ex-consultant was deliberately trying to write unmaintainable code. I'll have too take a deeper look at it this evening.


tommyrot - Sep 05, 2006 11:07:28 am PDT #8766 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Thanks!

In any event, I have an inelegant workaround (producing the 'color:red' thing (when needed) in the SQL stored proc instead). So at least I can get our client off our backs....

This particular web page is used by management, so we have to take their whining more seriously.


Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2006 2:51:08 pm PDT #8767 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Tommyrot, insent to both your work and profile addresses.


Dana - Sep 05, 2006 5:30:20 pm PDT #8768 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

So my iPod hard drive died, and now our primary computer is refusing to boot.

I'm not really looking for advice, just sympathy.