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There are plenty of customers I work with who want to build web pages and data structures for data-exchange by specifying a "template" of what they would like to come out and "plug-in" the data from their database query directly into the template. Many of these developers are familar with the declarative nature of SQL which lets them ask the database to "SELECT" what they want "FROM" the sources they need "WHERE" certain conditions exists. They are looking for a template-based way to create these pages and "datagrams" and are not willing to write DOM manipulation code to produce a simple web page output when something like: <td><xsl:value-of select="salary"/></td> would be used to "plug-in" the data. I find many of Michael Leventhal's arguments of the form: "You don't need XSL since you can do it with DOM" to be analogous to saying: "You don't need SQL since you can get the data out by using assembly language to iterate the bytes on the disk blocks to retrieve what you need!" _________________________________________________________ Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist Business Components for Java Dev't Team http://www.oracle.com/xml
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