RE: Application Design

[Bruce.Durling@equifax.com]

<please forgive my rubbish mua>

A. Snell wrote:
<snip/>
XSLT just doesn't do data processing, and if you're writing
code anyway to process data, you can write code to call up a template that
some
web developer writes to plonk the results into with them only needing to
learn
about five "special" elements they slip into their HTML...
<snip/>

Sounds like combining XPath with JSP. Works for me anyway.

cheers,
bld



                                                                                                                  
                    Alaric Snell                                                                                  
                    <alaric@alaric-        To:     Don Park <donpark@docuverse.com>                               
                    snell.com>             cc:     xml-dev@lists.xml.org                                          
                                           Subject:     RE: Application Design                                    
                    08/13/01 01:03                                                                                
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Quoting Don Park <donpark@docuverse.com>:

> While DOM-based solutions are harder to implement and maintain, there
> are
> plenty of people available with DOM expertise.   This is not true for
> XSLT.
> Even if XSLT become universally available in browsers, JavaScript and
> DOM
> combination will be the preferred method of implementation.

I see XSLT as great for converting DocBook to FO or HTML, but it just
doesn't
seem sensibly designed for the Web app / on the fly stuff. There's too much
data
processing there. XSLT just doesn't do data processing, and if you're
writing
code anyway to process data, you can write code to call up a template that
some
web developer writes to plonk the results into with them only needing to
learn
about five "special" elements they slip into their HTML...

>
> Don Park
> Docuverse
>

ABS

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