Subject: Re: CSS for transformation From: "Philippe Le Hégaret" <Philippe.Le_Hegaret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:20:56 +0200 |
Tyler Baker wrote: > Well there is speculation and there is fact. The current XSL draft is working > quite well (at least for HTML output) for the needs of a highly-dynamic website I Do you call "quite well" the current solution ? This is a post processor solution ! How can I generate HTML4 strict or HTML4 transitional with this solution ? Should we add a namespace for all HTML DTD ? > am indirectly involved with. I don't think XSL is supposed to be the end-all > solution for everything, but something simple enough that you don't need a > complicated programming background just to create a highly-dynamic website. > > XSL as not a programming language. It is not a scripting language either. I feel > XSL's power will be in its simplicity and its ability to change the entire look and > feel of a website without changing the content or rewriting about 1000 lines of > JavaScript each time. Writing code to present content is just not a very efficient > way of delivering dynamic content from a cost perspective. No company in there > right mind wants to hire 10 JavaScript experts just to get a website going. > > XSL I believe will succeed because it will eliminate the need for a lot of the > scripting solutions as well as the really high-end web-site server products people > use today to get the job done. In the end, this saves businesses money and that is > why it will succeed. I understand your opinion and have no answer for you. But you can't do a lot of thing with XSL ... For example, if I want to have two result tree from one XML document, I can't. I must write a program to do this for the moment. You reject the scripting solution because you don't need a powerful tool. What users, like me, can do with this poor language ? Should we definitively forget XSL and write programs without specification or guideline ? Philippe. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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