{"id":588,"date":"2009-04-29T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2009-04-29T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T16:16:27","slug":"wtfractal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"WTFractal?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XSLT\">XSLT<\/a> is a language for transforming XML.  I came to hate XSLT long ago, at the tail end of a fading honeymoon period in which I dwelt in the empty promises of XML.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywtf.com\/Articles\/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-XSLT-Mandelbrot.aspx\">a way<\/a> to plot the Mandelbrot Set using only an XML file combined with a particularly evil XSLT file.  This is a disturbing, evil way to go about drawing fractals.  Please don&#8217;t do this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywtf.com\/Articles\/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-XSLT-Mandelbrot.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/xslt-wtf-mandelbrot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It really works.  <a href=\"http:\/\/img.thedailywtf.com\/images\/200904\/mandelbrot.xml\">Click here<\/a> to try it.  Your browser will thank you for the pointless exercise.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=521\">previously<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=156\">previously<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XSLT is a language for transforming XML. I came to hate XSLT long ago, at the tail end of a fading honeymoon period in which I dwelt in the empty promises of XML. Somebody came up with a way to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,16,22,27,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bizarre","category-computing","category-meaningless","category-pain","category-queasy","category-tech","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}