Subject: Re: [xsl] Is letting the browser transform XML to XHTML using XSLT a good choice? From: "M. David Peterson" <xmlhacker@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:36:14 -0700 |
* Yeah, we did. TransforMiiX enter the world a couple of years later. And now there has been signicant talk of extending support for EXSLT 1.0 once it reaches final rec from the EXSLT group. * This should have been annotated with the fact that TransforMiiX was donated to the Mozilla foundation, from MIT (need to reverify this, but I almost certain it was MIT). Whether it can be said Michael Leventhal and his crack-heads -- or something like that -- had anything to do with this development is neither here nor there. He was wrong then, just as he is now. I have plenty more fire power to bring into this if necessary. I sincerely hope I don't have to spend my Saturday filling XSL-List with link after link after link with annotations backing up each claim. The facts are pretty straight forward as they are. This should be more than adequate, but I am both willing, and more than capable of taking this one as far as needs to go. On 3/4/06, M. David Peterson <xmlhacker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One other significant point: Google decided that the need for a > scriptable client side XSLT processor was great enough that it became > one of their very first contributions to their OSS efforts. Its > written in Javascript, yes, but this, in fact, brings even more > credibilty toall of this as they made the decision that this was > important enough to get into the developers hands as quickly as > possible, that even a non-compiled language like Javascript was better > than nothing at all. > > There are currently 11 OSS projects directly developed by Google. > (this doensnt include any of the Summer of Code projects they > sponsored). They can be found here > > http://code.google.com/projects.html > > Of these 11 projects, this is the only browser-based project that is > not a Google specific API. > > - MS > - Mozilla (see *) > - Safari/Konqeror > - Opera > - Google > > * Anybody remember these famous last words: > --- > The Challenge > > Anything XSL can do in the Web environment, I can do better using > technologies supported by current W3C Recommendations. > > Of course, what is "meaningful" in the Web environment is open to a > variety of interpretations. Therefore, the subject of the challenge > should be one that the XSL camp and I agree is meaningful. > > I am also ready to make this bet a little bit more than an academic > exercise. If I lose, I will pledge that I, and my crack mozilla > development team, will assist in implementing XSL in the mozilla open > source project. > --- > > http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/05/xsl/xslconsidered_1.html < > --- > > Who won that bet, anway? > > Yeah, we did. TransforMiiX enter the world a couple of years later. > And now there has been signicant talk of extending support for EXSLT > 1.0 once it reaches final rec from the EXSLT group. > > Browser and Client-side XML/XSLT has gone well beyond theory, and is > now very much a reality, and getting better each and every day. > > If you care about development time/time to market, cost of > infrastructure, client-side application performance, and a cleaner, > simpler overall design, the solution is quite clear: > > Client-side/Browser-based XSLT that communicates with a Server side > preferably XSLT 2.0, XSLT processor for managing transaction requests > from the client. My choice (but I am no where near alone on this) > Saxon 8.7 and beyond -- yes, there are other 2.0 engines not developed > by Dr. Kay, and not carrying the Saxon label ... And none of them come > close to Saxon.. I promise.) > > -- > <M:D/> > > M. David Peterson > http://www.xsltblog.com/ > -- <M:D/> M. David Peterson http://www.xsltblog.com/
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