Subject: Re: [xsl] Netscape XSL and ' charcter From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:49:39 +0100 |
There are practical applications for client-side transformations, such as apps that are built from a browser's API, or just plain old fashioned tinkering and learning, but if you're just trying to display XML from the browser and expose your results to the masses, I would think that the resources involved (from an expense point) would be better directed towards running server-side transformations. I think that I fundamentally disagree with this. There are some issues with support on current browsers (especially NS which picked up a very early and really flaky version of the Transformiix XSLT engine) The current version in mozilla is much better. But that is just a (hopefully) transient problem, browsers get updated. I would say that client side transforms are (or at least were originally) the _main_ point of XML. XML was conceived as SGML-for-the-web, that is a light weight version of SGML that could be _served_ over the web, and would have a light weight presentation language (compared to DSSSL) so that served data could be browsed. If you are only going to serve your data downgraded into an HTML presentation view, then really there is not so much advantage in having it in a lightweight format on the server, it could have been full SGML, or a database or anything else. XML was designed to be served over the web, and that implies processing at the receiving end, not the serving end. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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