RE: FW: XSL with scripting

Hi Keith,

When I visit the MITRE (http://www.mitre.org) site is it what's happening? I
mean, you translate in real time XML into HTML with XSL? What should I do to
get the XML document and get transformed into HTML locally?

Didier PH Martin
mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.netfolder.com

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Subject: Re: FW: XSL with scripting


Didier,

 Yes, eventually this will probably be what happens, but for now, since
Netscape does not support XSL, unless you have a plugin, and IE supports
it only in beta, I recommend using the XSL processor on the server. We
do this here at MITRE and quite effectively.

 We query a couple of different databases and turn the query result into
an XML document. Depending on the request, we can return just the XML or
we can run it through a stylesheet. The reason we allow returning the
XML is so that we can provide a service to any other applications
wishing to get at the data. Its actually quite efficient, thought I do
agree that it would be faster just to convert the data into the desired
format. We lose the flexibility of the stylesheets if we do that and we
decided that the tradeoff was in favor of XSL.

--Keith

Didier PH Martin wrote:
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> After thinking more about you said, and tell me if I am wrong. The
> architecture you propose is:
>
> a) have on the server a script (or whatever) that create a XML document.
Do
> you made some tests with liveScript to know if a XML document could be
> created with it? It seems that you can with ASP.
>
> b) attach to this document (with a tag or embed in it) a XSL script.
>
> c) let the client interpret the XSL script and convert the XML document
into
> a displayable thing.
>
> Is it the kind of architecture you are proposing? I am not arguing, just
> trying to understand your architecture.
>
> Cheers
> Didier PH Martin
> mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.netfolder.com
>
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