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            <xmler>  Hi
            <xmler>  How can I do <a href="$variable">blah</a> in XSLT?
          <rindolf>  xmler: you can use <xsl:attribute>
          <rindolf>  xmler: or use ${...}
          <rindolf>  xmler: have you read the Zvon XSLT tutorial?
            <xmler>  rindolf: I've read various resources; perhaps it's
                     the fault of XML::XSLT on CPAN
          <rindolf>  xmler: use XML::LibXSLT instead.
          <rindolf>  It's faster and better.
              <Zuu>  <insert mean statement about XSLT>
              <Zuu>  :)
          <rindolf>  "XSLT is the work of Satan"
          <rindolf>  "It's the worst thing since non-sliced bread."
              <Zuu>  Hahaha :D
          <rindolf>  "Mothers used to tell their children about XSLT to
                     scare them."
            <xmler>  Haha
              <Zuu>  That last one is good
            <xmler>  XSLT seems pretty cool
              <Zuu>  xmler, no no, that's not mean
              <Zuu>  you're doing it wrong
              <Zuu>  :P
            <xmler>  XSLT is too cool to be mean to :p
              <Zuu>  Hehe
          <rindolf>  "XSLT is the number one cause of programmers'
                     suicides since Visual Basic 1.0"
 <tommy_the-dragon>  lol
              <Zuu>  :>
              <Zuu>  I could believe in that
          <rindolf>  "The X in XSLT stands for eXtermination."
          <rindolf>  "XSLT makes the baby jesus cry."
          <rindolf>  "The only things worse than XSLT are Excel and
                     sugarless tea."
 <tommy_the-dragon>  rofl
                  *  Zuu kinda likes Excel
          <rindolf>  Zuu: yes, it was a joke.
              <Zuu>  Noooh!
              <Zuu>  they are all true!
          <rindolf>  Now I'm out of ideas.
              <Zuu>  i havent even had a single idea yet..
          <rindolf>  "XSLT is what Chuck Norris has nightmares of."
              <Zuu>  Whoah!
              <Zuu>  wait.. that would somehow make XSLT cooler than Chuck
                     Norris...
              <Zuu>  Chuck Norris dont have mightmares
          <rindolf>  "Confucius e says: 'XSLT made me realise humanity was
                     hopeless."
              <Zuu>  "Even APL wont make friends with XSLT"
              <Zuu>  yay, i maded one!
          <rindolf>  "God considered using XSLT as the tenth plague of
                     Egypt, but thought it was too evil."
          <rindolf>  Zuu: :-)
              <Zuu>  Haha :D
              <Zuu>  that plauge one is awesome
          <rindolf>  "In Soviet Russia, XSLT codes you. Badly!"
          <rindolf>  "Satan condemned Hitler for a million years of
                     writing XSLT"
          <rindolf>  OK, back to work.
          <rindolf>  C - not XSLt.
              <Zuu>  :)
          <rindolf>  "The KGB used to torture their victims by having them
                     look at scrolling XSLT code"
            <xmler>  rindolf: lol, love the KGB + XSLT one
            <xmler>  rindolf: by the way, what's with the XSLT hate by the
                     way, is it some kind of meme? :p
                  *  Zuu gives xmler an XSLT interpreter written in XSLT
         <Jck_true>  I wanna make ASM code from XSLT
          <rindolf>  "My name is Inigo Montoya. You forced my father to
                     write XSLT. Prepare to die! And be thankful I don't
                     force you to write XSLT."
            <xmler>  Ah for gawd's sake. Can't install XML::LibXML, it
                     says I don't have libxml2 (I do)
          <rindolf>  xmler: do you have the -devel package?
          <rindolf>  xmler: what is your distro?
          <rindolf>  OS distro I mean.
            <xmler>  rindolf: Debian 4.0
            <xmler>  Ooh, perhaps I don't actually
          <rindolf>  xmler: ok, then apt-get install libxml-libxslt-perl
                  *  Zuu have to go o/
          <rindolf>  xmler: maybe we should discuss it on #perl?
          <rindolf>  Zuu: bye
          <rindolf>  Zuu: and beware of stray XSLT code.
              <Zuu>  I will :P
          <rindolf>  Zuu: OK.
            <xmler>  rindolf: sure, uno memento :)

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