& XSLT hi

( 06.06.06 09:44 -0400 ) Andrew Strader:
>  The coup de gras was a database table mapping specific hex values to
>  be substituted in text strings, which was essentially a poorly
>  re-invented wheel of UTF-to-ISO conversion. The developer had just
>  been adding rows to the table every time he discovered another non-ISO
>  character in an input string. He apparently never realized that the
>  input and output must be in the same character encoding.

or perhaps he [or she] thought of it as a form of job security ...

but then again, never attribute to malice what could also be explained
as stupidity ...

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