[xsl] XSLT Architecture: Next Step

["Claudio Russo" <crusso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been looking at Didier's article, http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/04/19/style/index.html, and I found it very usefull. Now I have some opinions that brought to my attention.

>From what I read on it and previously in other articles about the subject, my first impression was that XSLT pourpose was to perform the presentation of data in a browser or cel phone or whatever (which is also well explained on Didier's article). While doing this, one could preserve the logic of extracting and calculation to the server, in which ever is the language that somebody likes to work, from let's say, an RDB/IMS/VSAM to a XML structure. This way the resulting data was transfered to the client machine, where an XSLT schema presented in the way the view device need it (HTML/WAP/Voice).

Now, from the msgs I see on the list I see that people pretend to use XSLT for whatever they figure out (maybe also for cooking). 

The question is (or are): Do you share these views?

Regards, Claudio.

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