RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML

["Claudio Russo" <crusso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wendell,

I thought the XML as a way to represent data, not instructions. Why you compare with HTML?

Claudio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Martes, 01 de Julio de 2003 12:58 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML


Claudio,

At 09:18 AM 7/1/2003, David wrote:
> > I don't have access to a server (I did some applications in a free
> > site hosting), the transformations aren't done in this case in the
> > client side?
>
>If you don't have access to either a sever or a client that can do XSLT
>then you can't use XSLT, you have to just write HTML.

You can still, however, write XML at home and convert it into HTML in batch 
mode, then serve up the HTML the old-fashioned way.

"Poor man's XML". Yet a surprisingly effective way to use it -- you still 
get many or most of the advantages of XML: you can tag your documents to 
their type instead of maintaining the HTML tagging, which is useless for 
anything but web pages. Assuming you do the design right, you'll still get 
XML's economies of scale (from the "separation of format from content" etc. 
etc.), robustness and reusability of your data, and all that. (Whether this 
would be worthwhile in your particular case, of course, depends on why 
you're using XML.)

It's the application of markup language technologies in back offices like 
this, invisible to the world, that led Chet Ensign to title a book "SGML: 
the Billion-Dollar Secret".



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