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Re: XSLT for desktop applications

• To: "Kanchana D S (RBIN/DCA-TSG) *" <Kanchana.DS@i...>
• Subject: Re: XSLT for desktop applications
• From: Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@z...>
• Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:27:10 +1100
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Kanchana D S (RBIN/DCA-TSG) * wrote:
> Can XSLT be used for desktop applications? If so, how ? We have the requirement to design the GUI for a desktop application using XSLT. The help for developing non-web based applications (WinForms in the .NET environment)using xslt seems to be very little. That is, is it possible to generate the user interface for a WinForms application using XSLT? 

With certain engineering styles, XSLT can be used as part
of the implementation of any application - including desktop
GUIs.  [That's not to say that it should be, only that it is
possible]

Scripting languages tend to lend themselves to this style
of engineering, due to their runtime evaluation.
The idea is that one uses scripting to set up a transformation,
and the stylesheet generates a new script (as a text output)
that is then evaluated.

So far in practice I have found that this significantly
reduces the amount of DOM programming required (which I find
an interesting result).  The stylesheet operates upon the
data in XML documents (particularly configuration data)
and then the (generated) script operates upon the UI.
This can lead to a nice separation of responsibility.

The particular scripting language I'm using is Tcl/Tk,
but the same techniques apply to Python and Perl/Tk.

HTHs,
Steve Ball

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