hello.
this is not an xslt programming language question, but i hope that maybe
somebody knows the answer anyway, and it certainly has xslt as its main
topic. here is what i want to do:
- start with an xml with tabular values which is transformed into a
table (server-side) and embedded into an html page.
- on the web page surrounding the data table, there should be various
buttons to reformat the table, each of these is associated with an xslt.
- when pressing the button, the xml and the xslt is loaded from the
server, and the static table is replaced with the result of transforming
the xml into html.
- the user can then update the display any number of times with a
minimum amount of network traffic (the browser cache will cache the data
and the xslt).
now, i do know that ajax frameworks such as sarissa or even better freja
are supposed to support this kind of functionality, but they are poorly
documented, under constant development, and seem to routinely break with
every minor version of a browser. so i have two questions:
- did anybody have success implementing the above scenario, and if so,
which framework did you use and on which browsers did you test it? and
would you recommend to do it in the same way you did it?
- in general, is there a chance that something like this runs reasonably
stable and works for the majority of users? the static strting table
should be good enough for those with older browsers, but i want the more
flexible solution to be available to the majority of users.
if possible, please cc answers to my email as well. thanks and kind
regards for any pointers or suggestions,
erik wilde tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
dret@xxxxxxxxxxxx - http://dret.net/netdret
UC Berkeley - School of Information (iSchool)