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At 12:25 PM 9/30/98 -0400, Tyler Baker wrote: >XSL >at the moment does not play any currently implemented role, but I forsee that it >will be something we actively support as separating abstract content from >presentation content I believe will become a mainstay of application frameworks >for the web. The best thing we have right now that I have seen is Cold Fusion. >This primarily is only a server-side solution and costs a lot of money. XSL's >strength I feel will be on the client side as all that a web server will need to >do is present easy to construct XML content at the server level, and then fetch a >stylesheet for the particular user (which could be customized via some sort of >profile). The content viewer which may be an HTML browser then can do all of >this processing on the client machine rather than bog down the server with >complicated content presentation processing. Once again, CSS can separate abstract content from presentation quite neatly. In what circumstances is this separation so drastic as to require a transformation? I'm sure they must be out there. Database tables -> neatly formatted pages? Documents that can change their structure at a user's whim? I'm having a hard time coming up with practical uses for XSL that don't remind me of nuclear missiles homing in on a gnat, hell bent on blasting that little gnat to smithereens. Simon St.Laurent Dynamic HTML: A Primer / XML: A Primer Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth (November) Building XML Applications (December) http://www.simonstl.com 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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