It was a very easy proof of concept. Back then they used XSLT to convert clients’ homepages to an intermediary HTML-dialect that would then be rendered out to mobile phones and other devices according to their capabilities. That was before everyone had a smartphone just around the time the first iPhone was released.
The test was to write an XSLT that would convert one very simple HTML file into their dialect. They knew that almost no candidate would have ever touched XSLT before that. So they needed people who could learn quickly. My own entry was plenty suboptimal but at least it achieved the task. That was about two hours of work.
It was a very easy proof of concept. Back then they used XSLT to convert clients’ homepages to an intermediary HTML-dialect that would then be rendered out to mobile phones and other devices according to their capabilities. That was before everyone had a smartphone just around the time the first iPhone was released.
The test was to write an XSLT that would convert one very simple HTML file into their dialect. They knew that almost no candidate would have ever touched XSLT before that. So they needed people who could learn quickly. My own entry was plenty suboptimal but at least it achieved the task. That was about two hours of work.