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Nigel Byrnes <byrnes@p...> wrote: >We all know the benefits of representing "static" documents in XML. But >considering where [HTML, VRML, etc] content is to be generated on the >fly, as is frequently done by CGI scripts, is XML suitable for encoding >the output data in these types of applications? > >Considering a simple hangman game, the application could either: > >1. receive user-input and generate XML as output, which then has to be >formated >2. receive user-input and generate format markup language-content as >output >3. another possibility? Attach JavaScript code to the document and have it manipulate the XML tree dynamically through the DOM interface. That's what DHTML does (for an HTML tree instead of an XML tree). It has the advantages of: - Being client side if you want it to (no round trip delay, no server CPU load). - Being server side if you want it (the JavaScript code may contact the server if it wants). - Reduces bandwidth (no need to send the whole XML document just to change the color of a menu entry :-) - Builds on existing standards (ECMAScript). - Allows gateways to external computing resources (to Java at least, and throuh it and JNI to anything else - though I'd love to see a JNI-equivalent directly for JavaScript). - Defining it is easy; no need to create new complex standard. Share & Enjoy, Oren Ben-Kiki 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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