Subject: Re: [xsl] Question about Michael Kay's book From: "Perry Molendijk" <perry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:24:18 +0800 |
The book is an excellent reference for those using XSLT or wanting to learn. XSLT is an open standard so the OS you use it on is pretty irrelevant. Two projects I am currently working on are entirely build in Java (JSP), developed on NT boxes and deployed on Unix servers. XSLT is used to output the HTML. To keep the marketing folks happy we regularly take a snapshot of the XML generated by the application and use it in a static prototype using the same XSLT files as the application. The marketing folk use IE with MSXML 3 to do their presentations. So OS/platform issue at all realy. Perry Molendijk ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Kay To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:03 PM Subject: RE: [xsl] Question about Michael Kay's book > I'd like to know whether its > equally valuable > for those of us who live without MS, i.e. no IIS, no IEx, no > Windows OS, etc. The bulk of the book tries to steer completely clear of any platform-dependencies, except in Chapter 8 where it discusses extension functions in Java and JavaScript. The book is about the language, not about the environment you run it in. There's one appendix on the MSXML environment, one on Saxon, one on Xalan, one on Oracle, and one that tries to survey the rest of the product space. The MSXML appendix is the longest, not just because of the likely level of interest, but also because running XSLT in the client opens up a lot of possibilities that aren't there with the other products. > For example, how well does it cover Cocoon? Rather superficially, I'm afraid. I tried to give it some coverage but found it a remarkably complex environment that was difficult to do justice to in a few pages. And a lot of it seemed to have little to do with XSLT. I didn't have time or space for a thorough description so decided to content myself with a few paragraphs that tried to explain briefly what Cocoon is and what it isn't. I found even that was quite difficult... Mike Kay Software AG XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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