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Hi Tim, Tim said: Probably Dynabase, just like infoworld.com; it's the only product I know of that serves HTML pages with the .xml extension (a practice that seems more than a little weird to me). -T Didier replies: Hoops we also do that ;-). What would you do otherwise because the source document required is an xml document. The advantage is that the URL is still the same and is independant of the user agent requesting the document. In fact, the server recognizes that the user agent cannot process the xml document locally because it does not support XSLT. Then the server decides to do the process on the server side. Consider that XSLT processing is a partitioned process that can occur on the server or the client side. This all depends on the client capabilites. This year, we will probably see the first wave of XSLT 1.0 compliant browsers. In that case, the server recognizing that the user agent do support XSLT 1.0 may decide to partition the transformation process on the client side. As you see, this is a very good distributed processing practice. Yes, we are really talking here about distributed computing an process partitionning. I think that the behavior showned by dynabase and other processors like ours (I think Matt's processor is also doing that) will increase as the diversity of rendering languages increases and also as the demand for content customization increases. cheers Didier PH Martin ---------------------------------------------- Email: martind@n... Conferences: xml devcon 2000 (http://www.xmldevcon2000.com) Wireless Summit NY (http:www.pulver.com) xml devcon 2001 London (http://www.xmldevcon2000.com) Book: XML Professional (http://www.wrox.com) column: xml.com (http://www.xml.com)
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