Subject: RE: [xsl] when to use xslt From: "Hardy Merrill" <HMerrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:39:55 -0500 |
Isn't that what EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is for ? ;-) This is a little OT from Dagoberto's post, but I can't help myself. <rant> I used to work for an insurance company that used EDI extensively to transform incoming company data into standard formats for our data, and visa-versa. Although EDI is standards based, every single transformation map we wrote was unique. I failed to see the need for EDI software in general - very expensive, and what does it get you when you can do basically the same thing trading XML documents between companies (encrypted :) and transform them with XSLT as needed. </rant> Dagoberto, I don't see anything wrong with your approach, assuming you are taking proper measures (encryption?) to ensure that the XML documents can't be read by anyone other than the two companies involved. In terms of XML/XSLT, the technologies used to store the data are irrelevant - all you care about is your supplier gives you XML document in Model A - you need to write an XSLT transformation to transform that data into your Model B - what you do with it once it's in Model B doesn't really matter (to us ;-) Hardy Merrill >>> dagof@xxxxxxxxxxxx 01/13/05 08:40PM >>> Hello Henning, I think that xslt is very useful when you (your company) want to develop an aplication to communicate your Data Model with another or more Data Models (companies) that have one different. More specific, my supplier have a model A and I have the model B, and so that my applications can work appropriately (one option) I receive its xml document, I transform it in a xml document that my application can accept. CompanyDatabase (Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer2005, etc.) -- xmlDoc -- xmlDoc + myXsltDoc = myXmlDoc -- myDatabase (Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer2005, etc.) Obviously don't forget to implement text encrypting methods. Is this concept correct? Dagoberto Flores -----Original Message----- From: Henning Waack [mailto:henning.waack@xxxxxx] Sent: January 13, 2005 1:37 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [xsl] when to use xslt Dear all. I'am looking for argument for and against xslt, that is when is it useful to use (the functional language) xslt, when to use some imperative programming language? Right now I am not getting very far, except for some standard arguments like xslt is slow, but xml itself etc. Can you point me to some sophisticated points concerning this topic? Thank you very much in advanced, greetings, Henning
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