Subject: RE: Newbie question From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:17:02 +0100 |
> I guess what I'm hoping to > find is something really clean that automatically takes XML, > applies the XSL stylesheet provided and spits out whatever the stylesheet > says to spit out....in this case HTML......without having to change or add a single > line of java or perl. I think all the XSL processors do this, in a sense. But you have to call them from somewhere, whether it's a command line, a URL, or a single line of code in an ASP page or Java Server Page. What's appropriate depends on when and where you want to invoke the stylesheet (client-side or server-side, or eagerly at content publishing time). The default way of invoking a stylesheet "automatically" is to name the stylesheet within the XML document source and have the browser recognise it (which IE5 does). Personally I don't like that option much because I like the idea that different users should have different views of the same data. In SAXON 4.2 I've provided another option, compiling the stylesheet to create a servlet which can be referenced directly by URL, specifying the source XML document as a parameter. I don't think this really makes your life enormously easier, it means that instead of writing a bit of script to invoke the stylesheet at run-time you need to write a bit of script to compile it and install it each time you edit it: but I do think it's an architecture that has great promise from a performance perspective. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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