RE: Transform XML to HTML

When you get into some fancy HTML (ie, lots of embedded tables in embedded
tables in div's) I think it is a lot easier to read html than element
name="table"

Thinking in nodes does not exclude actually writing out nodes in your
templates.  

I think a language like XSL is sufficiently powerful that you can make the
processor do whatever you want in a number of ways.  The bottom line is, if
its all the same when its headed for the processor, then do what is easiest
for a human to read.

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Michael H. Semcheski
Developer, Livewire Media
412-390-1525

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-
> list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Grytz
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Transform XML to HTML
> 
> Hi,
> 
> maybe it's only a question of good style, but when someone has to
> transform a XML-Data into HTML, is it {safer|better|easier|common} to
> do something like this
> 
> <xsl:element name="table">
> <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">#000000</xsl:attribute>
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="tr"/>
> </xsl:element>
> 
> or an I simply write
> 
> <table bgcolor="#000000">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="tr"/>
> </table>
> 
> Someone on this list said, that one has to "think in nodes". IMHO is the
> first one closer to that. Suggestions?
> 
> Andreas
> 
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