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RE: What the .... ? Referencing XSL stylesheets across domains

• To: 'Didier PH Martin' <martind@n...>, "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: What the .... ? Referencing XSL stylesheets across domains
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:16:03 -0500

Yes.  Most programmers prefer to bind to a code set 
than to interpret a code set in terms of metalevel 
constructs.   It is also market-savvy as Flash, PDF, 
etc. demonstrate. How to know when this will be 
done if you are procuring:  the CIO, CTO, lead 
programmer will say  "we'll just send some XML" 
and says nothing more than that, meaning they 
have said next to nothing and you have just 
left them to make all the decisions that lead 
to lock-in or not.

It would be interesting to know what the statistics are 
on features of HTML used for how many pages.  In other 
words, how many pages are just posters (big scrolling 
text and graphic blocks), how many are interactive 
forms (real forms, submits, etc), how many include 
object/applets, and so on.

A downtranslation to a gencode will always be the 
easiest and fastest way to publish to the medium. 
For that HTML is ideal as was the original gencode 
set.  It is when one goes interactive that the 
book metaphor starts to degrade although as you 
say, HTML 3 to 4 is king and I suspect will be 
for a long time to come for obvious reasons: the 
80/20 thing.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@n...]

Hi Len

Len said:
No.   HTML legacy is.

Didier replies:
I agree. Add to this a lack of incentive to move to a multi-device
rendering architecture. From our research we discovered that, most of
the time, the same content is not published on different devices,
instead, different content is published on different devices.

 Even if MS Explorer can process, locally, decent stylesheets, the
actual servers' infrastructure cannot leverage this feature by
partitioning the transformation process between the server and the
client.

Conclusion: The web is still based on HTML and not yet on XML (with the
exception of few successful XML publishing implementations). At Didier's
labs, I let a robot run for several month in order to find published
XHTML documents and guess what, I discovered only a few. When we compare
the number of XHTML documents found to the size of the web we are
talking here of the dimensions of a mountain ( a huge one)compared to
the dimensions of an electron. So to speak, there's practically no XHTML
documents on the web.

Yep HTML is still the king of the web :-)

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