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Wendell wrote
><xsl:template name="asptag">
> <xsl:param name="asp" select="' '"/>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><%</xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="asp"/>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">%></xsl:text>
></xsl:template>
>... <xsl:call-template name="asptag">
> <xsl:with-param name="asp">= Now </xsl:with-param>
> </xsl:call-template>
yeah, since the above is most appropriate to little snippets of inline
asp code he might also be well off in having a variable start and
variable end which puts out the <% and >%, also for asp at least,
the following while maybe not a good thing otherwise - <xsl:variable
name="crlf"><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></xsl:variable>- will help
keep the code that comes out the other end a little bit readable.
>Doesn't ASP have an XML-friendly format?
Not really, although a lot of the <% %> problem would also be solved by
writing <SCRIPT RUNAT="SERVER">...</SCRIPT>, furthermore if one moves up
to aspx I've found that while not altogether easy one can build an
xml-friendly format out of webforms, as long as one remembers to have
the asp namespace declared somewhere, allowing you to generate stuff
like:
<html>
<body>
<asp:xml id="someXML" DocumentSource="some.xml"
TransformSource="some.xsl" runat=server/>
</body>
</html>
of course somewhere on your backend you've got xml unfriendly code
running around, but doesn't everyone.
>FWIW, the notion that XSL is broken since it "doesn't separate data
from
>presentation" is kind of funny in view of the fact that it was designed
to
>be a presentation-tier thing ... run in the client, target FO etc. ...;
>it's only because it's so darned versatile that everyone's using it in
the
>middle tier at all....
right, I for one have a problem anyway with the separation of data from
presentation holy writ, I think it's a good rule to live by but maybe
not preach so much because every now and then solutions will be required
that darn it, just cry out for presentation with data.
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