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 At 01:36 AM 9/8/2001 -0700, Christopher R. Maden wrote: >At 22:51 7-09-2001, XML Everywhere wrote: >>Client-side XSL? >> >>What are you smoking? >> >>XSLT is great. Just don't do it on the client. >>Transform your XML on the server. > >So XML Everywhere Except The Browser, then? No, CSS works quite nicely for XML in browsers - Mozilla is a nice example, Opera's not too much further off (if they fixed Unicode support, anyway!) IE is a long ways further off, and probably the main blockage for such usage today. There are work-arounds for the things the CSS folks haven't reached, like image inclusions, and progress on some other areas - XForms, or just workarounds for using HTML forms - that are the remaining barriers. We aren't that far from having XML+CSS representing a step up from (X)HTML+CSS. There's just one browser standing largely in the way. I've been told a few times that it's because their object model knows too much HTML, and a re-factoring would take too much effort. (That's the polite way of expressing it, anyway.) XSLT is useful, but I can't see myself telling graphic designers at WEB2001 (where I presented yesterday) that they _have_ to learn XSLT to get XML information to a browser. These aren't the people I want throwing rotten tomatoes at me. Simon St.Laurent Associate Editor O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 
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