Subject: Re: FW: XSL with scripting From: Keith Visco <kvisco@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:11:53 -0500 |
Paul, Actually I have my own XSLProcessor that does accept a DOM Document for the source... --Keith Paul Prescod wrote: > > Keith Visco wrote: > > > > We query a couple of different databases and turn the query result into > > an XML document. Depending on the request, we can return just the XML or > > we can run it through a stylesheet. The reason we allow returning the > > XML is so that we can provide a service to any other applications > > wishing to get at the data. Its actually quite efficient, thought I do > > agree that it would be faster just to convert the data into the desired > > format. We lose the flexibility of the stylesheets if we do that and we > > decided that the tradeoff was in favor of XSL. > > If you want to avoid the XML-text step, why don't you build a tree > directly from the results of the query and sic an XSL processor on > the tree. Of course you would have to hack the XSL processor to accept > your tree instead of a text file, but that shouldn't be too hard. > > You could even map your entire database into an XML-like structure and > then write an XSL processor that treats the database as the input > document and creates some particular result document. This is a > much harder proposition because you must map your database schema to > XML nodes and your XSL patterns into SQL queries...but it might > provide even higher performance depending on your application. > > Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself > http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco > > "Are the social and economic benefits of capital punishment sufficient > to outweigh the injustice of accidentally executing innocents?" > "What benefits???" > > 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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