I said it would get the a job, not that they'd necessarily be any good at it once they had it :-)
As they'll learn before they apply for their second job, there's a big difference between having read a book / sat a course about a programming language, and having used it in anger. Somewhere between those two lies the point where you can reasonably mention it on your CV under "other technologies".
Unless their XSLT course included a sizeable project with a practical purpose, there's no way they're going to (a) remember the basic syntax without prompting, or (b) know how to deal with the particular practical difficulties and gotchas of XSLT.
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Date: 2007-07-12 05:14 pm (UTC)As they'll learn before they apply for their second job, there's a big difference between having read a book / sat a course about a programming language, and having used it in anger. Somewhere between those two lies the point where you can reasonably mention it on your CV under "other technologies".
Unless their XSLT course included a sizeable project with a practical purpose, there's no way they're going to (a) remember the basic syntax without prompting, or (b) know how to deal with the particular practical difficulties and gotchas of XSLT.