Re: [xml-dev] RE: James Clark: XML versus the Web

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>]

> XSLT is an event-based language so it ought to be possible to find a way to
> make it handle user-input events (or data arriving from the server) by
> firing appropriate template rules. But I've no idea how this would look in
> detail.

We just need a standard F & O function for this.

See how this was done in the "XSLT calculator" 7 years ago:  :)

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/articles/xslCalculator/The%20FXSL%20Calculator.html#6._Putting_it_All_Together_-_the_XSLT_Calculator

Although this is a desktop app, the same design can be applied towards
a browser scripting application.



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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 16:45, Rob Koberg wrote:
>>
>> Another big problem I forgot to mention is handling browser events.
>> XML or XML apps (XSL) in the browser cannot catch browser events.
>>
>
> Yes, there's always been an uncomfortable asymmetry here - XSLT to handle
> the output, XForms to handle the input. Which doesn't really work well in an
> Ajax kind of world. I'd love to do something more integrated. In principle
> XSLT is an event-based language so it ought to be possible to find a way to
> make it handle user-input events (or data arriving from the server) by
> firing appropriate template rules. But I've no idea how this would look in
> detail.
>
> Michael Kay
>
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