Re: XML/XSL on the client for dynamic UI

["Scott Sanders" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think he was referring to the complex XSL logic...

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: Kaganovich, Yevgeniy (Eugene) <ykaganovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 6:03 PM
Subject: RE: XML/XSL on the client for dynamic UI


> Ken,
>
> Not sure if this is what you meant, but to expatiate on your point :
>
> Other than lack of complient browsers, I can see no good reason why the
end
> user should not have access to the semantic information of a document. If
> you want to keep information from being accessible, you should not
> distribute it in the first place, not just hide it within HTML. You can
use
> XSLT on your data to produce another XML document, containing appropriate
> ammount of information, and then serve it to the client along with a
> stylesheet. (I do hope no one has a problem with XML->XML transformations
> taking place on the server side :)
>
> BTW, just because you make it uncomfortable to extract semantic
information
> by putting it into HTML format, doesn't mean you make it impossible: tools
> like W4F (http://db.cis.upenn.edu/W4F/) seem very capable of getting it
out
> of HTML and back into the "righteous" form.
>
> - Y.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: disco [mailto:disco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 5:14 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: XML/XSL on the client for dynamic UI
>
>
> Mmm, I realized when I first heard the term "semantic firewall" yesterday
> that I had put my foot squarely in my mouth. You have a very good point,
> which I hadn't thought of at all before.
>
> ...which goes to show that "always" is a very loaded thing to say,
> especially when I'm just wrong :)
>
> Dan
>
> > But what if I need a semantic firewall ... something to either "protect"
> my
> > data, or to leverage my data into two kinds of product: one
semantic-less
> > or semantic-free to one set of clients, and one semantic-rich to
customers
>
> > willing to pay me more for that richness?
>
>
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