Subject: RE: [xsl] Practicality of Separating Data from Presentation From: "Conal Tuohy" <conalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:51:30 +1200 |
Wendell Piez wrote: > FWIW, the notion that XSL is broken since it "doesn't > separate data from > presentation" is kind of funny in view of the fact that it > was designed to > be a presentation-tier thing ... run in the client, target FO > etc. ...; > it's only because it's so darned versatile that everyone's > using it in the > middle tier at all.... I agree, and I'd also point out that the same could be said of many other languages. Is C++ broken? Is Java broken? Is VBScript broken? hmmm .... maybe VBScript IS broken ;-) As you point out, XSLT is very versatile, and can therefore be used in misguided ways, but this is not really a "feature" of the language itself. Actually XSLT can be a very powerful tool for frameworks that separate data and presentation. You can have a "middle-tier" XSLT and a "presentation-tier" XSLT and pipe the output of one into the other. Apache Cocoon http://xml.apache.org/cocoon is an example of this kind of framework. Con XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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