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> It certainly makes sense to include scripts in compound documents, but > I cannot see the advantage of mixing them in with the XML markup > itself -- they are a lot cleaner and easier to maintain when they are > in a separate file. The advantage is when the script is extremely simple, having to put a little script snippet in another file is a hassle. ie. <input type=text name=field value=<?php echo $value?>> This $value might be coming from an SQL engine, LDAP, a socket connection or just about anything imaginable, but all I need to do at this point in my HTML is display the $value variable. This might be a long HTML file with only that one single tag. In traditional web development you would write the entire thing in Perl and have perl print out lines and lines of straight HTML just so you could display that one dynamic variable in the right place. This means that when changes to the HTML needs to be made, you need to have your HTML editing person understand Perl as opposed to just have the person use an HTML authoring tool. There is obviously a delicate balance between the two methods. If the page is mostly scripting, then you would be better off writing it directly in the scripting language and have the language output the required HTML. But when it is mostly HTML with the odd bit of scripting needs, then it makes most sense to a lot of people to just toss the magical scripting tags directly into the HTML file. -Rasmus xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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