RE: [xml-dev] xml and javascript

["Nathan Young -X \(natyoung - Artizen at Cisco\)" <natyoung@cisco.com>]

Hi Rick.

If what you want is to use XSL in the browser, start with sarissa as Joe
advises.  It will take care of the cross browser issues and let you make
XSL do what it's supposed to do.

To be honest it looks like you are wanting to use the "the server is in
charge, it's going to send orders to the client about what to do with
the page" model. I'm not a great fan of that model overall because I
think it creates a weird kind of tight binding between code running on
the server and code running in the browser.

That said, this model can be a great fit for some specific situations
and if you want to go with it, there's a mature implementation out there
called taconite.  You'd have to change your XML format to taconite XML,
but in return you get a bunch of client side JS code that will recognize
the incoming XML and do a bunch of the kinds of things it sounds like
you want.

----------->Nathan




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Nathan Young
Cisco.com->Interface Development
A: ncy1717
E: natyoung@cisco.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Fawcett [mailto:joefawcett@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 6:02 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Cc: rjm@zenucom.com
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] xml and javascript
> 
> Rick
> 
> I don't see a problem with this, use a cross-browser library such as 
> Sarissa, or zXml which I find simpler, to get the basic 
> XmlHttpRequest, 
> either COM or built in depending on the browser. Send the 
> request and parse 
> the XML for the id and the executable JavaScript.
> 
> Have I missed something?
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> >From: Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com>
> >To: "xml-dev DEV'" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> >Subject: [xml-dev] xml and javascript
> >Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:29:21 +1100
> >
> >can someone put me out of misery please...
> >
> >Having realised that xmlHTTPRequest is great, but HTML has 
> limitations - in 
> >particular if I want to update a DIV with the result and 
> execute some 
> >Javascript I can a) make up my own syntax or b) try to use builtin 
> >Javascript functions for processing XML.
> >
> >Hmmm... this seems to be browser dependent. Is this correct? 
> I need XPATH.
> >
> >I have a simple vocabulary to do the work - basically:
> >
> ><response>
> >    <update id="xxx"> </update>
> >    ...
> >    <execute>...</execute>
> >    </response>
> >
> >where updates go into innerHTMLs of the id's and executes 
> are handled by 
> >eval(); (the application takes care of making sure the 
> updates are valid 
> >html).
> >
> >(I know I should probably ask on the Mulberrytech list - but 
> I've never had 
> >success with that list - have to change all my email 
> settings to use it - 
> >unlike this friendly list).
> >
> >I'm looking for generic (ie IE + Firefox at least) solutions 
> - so MXML is 
> >possible but it seems only available in IE and I can't find 
> any simple 
> >solution for FF.
> >
> >All pointers and links accepted with grateful thanks.
> >
> >Rick
> >
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