Re: [xsl] xml-stylesheet p.i. and other options (was Re: text/xsl...)

Subject: Re: [xsl] xml-stylesheet p.i. and other options (was Re: text/xsl...)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 00:39:40 +0100
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:19:32AM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:

> but I don't want it there, I want it in the main browser window behind
> the document I'm looking at. What I actually want to do is stuff the
> equation I'm currently looking at into some other application like maple
> for example. Or perhaps I want to search the document. I don't see that
> it is ideal that I should have to go back to an unrendered source view
> to do these things, even if that's what works at present.

ah, thats a whole other can of worms, then, isnt it? how you cut and
paste from the display?

> Also it's fine for you being a professional in these things to have
> axkit and cocoon and whatever else set up. But having a server side
> transformation mechanism in place significantly raises the bar for users
> wanting to serve XML.

quite right too. we don't want the hoi polloi muscling in, do we?

> HTML became popular with the man in the street (or
> at least the postgrad in a university) because anyone could dump an html
> page on a more or less free web server and publish their documents. If
> you've got a freeserve account and 5MB of free web space, using the
> stylesheet PI is a lot more practical proposition than persuading your
> ISP to set up cocoon for you.

yes, of course. and that simple use is served by the existing PI
mechanism. and if you want want more, you may need to get dirty.
its much more likely you'll want database connectivity, in my view,
which your cheapo ISP also won't provide

> Also, the stylesheet PI works to view files on my laptop offline, I
> suppose I could set up a server on localhost and serve myself things,
> but I don't
you should :-}

> I just double click on the file and view it, this is of
> course just a default view, for other things I run a transformation from
> the command line, but since documents are things to be viewed, having a
> default view is a good thing (I claim).

I for one don't wish to deny it. I'd like you to sit in XMetal
and choose "View" from somes menus, and have it do the right thing
with different stylesheets.  bizarrely, it does, rather well in fact. 

Er, I think I am out of my depth. I cannot see what the disagreement
is about, and I can't face trawling back to through the thread
to find out why Wendell cant just hack some Javascript.
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