XSLTForms [Was: Where is XML going]

[Olivier Rossel <olivier.rossel@gmail.com>]

XSLTForms is REALLY cool !!!!
And it shows immediate benefit for web developpers:
a clean semantics hidding the JS mess.


Question:
how would you handle the case where the data XML is available in a
separate document
(or at a REST URL, for example)? Do you have another webpage that
shows that usecase, on your website?

Another question:
if the data XML can be in a separate document, can this document be
another XSLTForms?
== does the web browser handle recursive XSLTForms?

Thanks for your answers.
(and a BIIIG thumb up for your work!)


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:58 PM, COUTHURES Alain
<alain.couthures@agencexml.com> wrote:
> XSLTForms already has an XPath transform function. I used it to dynamically
> generate SVG graphs at client-side:
> http://www.agencexml.com/svgopen/graphs.xml
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> -Alain
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> Le 08/12/2010 12:42, Philip Fennell a écrit :
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> Micheal wrote:
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>> The main drawback seems to be that it's hard to parameterize it, that is,
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>> to make anything dependent on data content or user input.
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> I’d say you’d want to consider what is being planned for the xf:transform
> action in XForms. Currently, XForms has all the pieces necessary to do this
> bar the invoking of the transform, but that is already available as an
> extension in some implementations. With XForms it doesn’t all come out of a
> single element, you need to define an instance for the data and some events
> that trigger actions and something with which to bind the result to the
> view. But then that’s probably why it is difficult to parameterize all in
> one element.
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> Regards
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> Philip Fennell
> Consultant
> MarkLogic Corporation
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> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com]
> Sent: 05 December, 2010 11:45 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Where is XML going
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> Personally, I'd like to see an inline <transform> tag in HTML5:
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> <transform
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>     stylesheet="xs:anyURI"
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>     data="xs:anyURI"
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>     type="mime-type"
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>     refresh="timeInterval"
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>     asynch="xs:boolean"
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>     media="xs:NMTokens"
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>     id="xs:ID">
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>       Default Internal Content
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> </transform>
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> This would be a display tag that would load the data either from a server or
> from a block of XML in the client, then would apply they associated
> stylesheet to that data in order to provide output that would replace the
> current child content.
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> I've been thinking about doing something like this as an alternative to
> having to invoke a transformation using Javascript. The main drawback seems
> to be that it's hard to parameterize it, that is, to make anything dependent
> on data content or user input.
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> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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