Re: Interesting discussion about XSLT job market

Hi Christoph,

thank you for the pointer. This is indeed an interesting discussion. I also
like the point about the technology stack made by several contributors in
the thread. There is XML technologies, and XSLT is only one of them. If you
need somebody, you ask for the whole technology stack, not a piece.

I guess the same is true for RDF. You will not hire somebody who knows
SPARQL, but RDF in general, OWL, and RDF databases. Knowledge on databases
is growing of importance in the XML world, and in the nosql realm, RDF and
XML already meet (cf. MarkLogic 9).

Cheers,

Felix


2017-08-16 13:42 GMT+02:00 Lange-Bever, Christoph <
Christoph.Lange-Bever@iais.fraunhofer.de>:

> Hi all,
>
> on the XSL mailing list there's an interesting discussion titled "no XSLT
> Jobs USA"; please see the public archive at http://www.biglist.com/lists/
> lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201708/threads.html. Not all
> posts have been archived yet. The most interesting one was by Michael Kay,
> like this:
>
> > StackOverflow currently has 9 job openings tagged XSLT, of which 5 are
> in Germany (Germany is also probably Saxonica's strongest market, if you
> exclude sales to software companies). These ads all list XSLT as one of a
> long list of technologies they are interested in, which reflects the fact
> that developers these days have to be multi-skilled. I don't think there
> can be many people who are full-time XSLT developers. It's just one of the
> tools in your kitbag.
> >
> > I never in my professional life used any of the programming languages
> that I learnt at University; though I have always used the skills I
> acquired when learning them. People should leave University with the
> ability to pick up any programming language that's thrown at them.
> >
> > Based on StackOverflow Q&A traffic, XSLT is somewhere between 20 and 30
> in the ranked list of programming languages, which is pretty high for a
> special-purpose language. But it wouldn't surprise me if the ranking is
> actually inflated by the fact that many XSLT developers only use the
> language occasionally, and are therefore not experts in its finer points.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christoph
>
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