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On 2/24/06, Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/06, Anthony Ettinger <aettinger@sdsualumni.org> wrote:
> <snip/>
>
> > > Generally the rational for using templates to build a Web site is to
> > > make it easy for some larger group (over space and/or time) than the
> > > original developers to maintain the site. XSLT would not be my first
> > > choice for the development and maintenance of the higher level
> > > abstractions that can be used to build a Web site. Rather, build a
> > > vocabulary designed for those needs and keep the XSLT in the core
> > > where it's not going to be exposed to random Web designers.
> >
> > From my experience you have this problem regardless of what
> > vocabulary/technology you're using. Recreating a presentation
> > vocabulary, or simply using xhtml may still result in "bad design"
> > phenomenon. My reasoning for using xsl is to have an include/component
> > type functionality with parameter passing. And simply creating a new
> > markup to facilitate this seems redundant.
> >
> Not sure what "problem" you're referring to?
>
> XSLT is a Turing complete language. By using it as your template
> language you not only force everyone who designs for your site to
> learn XSLT you open a huge can of potential performance, maintenance
> and security issues.
>
> You don't need to invent any new languages for includes.
>
> Not sure what you're real use cases for parameter passing are?
> Generally I haven't found a need for such with a properly designed Web
> site (other than within the site controller itself, but that's another
> issue altogether). Rather I end up including XML fragments as
> needed. Thus, every piece of information is maintained in one spot
> and one spot only. The data that creates the site in the XML files,
> the presentation of that data in XSLT. Separation of Concerns is a
> good thing in this case...
>
> --
> Peter Hunsberger
>
>
Hmmm....well if you had an xml fragment with 90% of the same code, but
you wanted a condition, you'd create a new markup for that?
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Anthony Ettinger
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