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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XML/XSL on the client for dynamic UI
 But that misses the point: Transformations should *absolutely* take place on the client side for several reasons: I disagree. I may wish to protect my investment in rich markup, business rules, design practices and proprietary information by *always* transforming my information to a presentation language (say, HTML) or to some other abstract language requiring downstream simple stylesheet application. - from an idealist's standpoint, having the pre-transformation xml on the client side maintains the semantics of the original data, and in the case of a lossy tranformation maintains the data itself as well. But what if I need a semantic firewall ... something to either "protect" my data, or to leverage my data into two kinds of product: one semantic-less or semantic-free to one set of clients, and one semantic-rich to customers willing to pay me more for that richness? - from a pragmatist's standpoint, there's no reason those valuable processing cycles shouldn't be split up between the clients requesting the data, because a server's job is to serve data as fast as it can. .... as fast as it can in a form appropriate for the audience. The flow of control Sean proposes for dealing with things given current technology is fine (I can't think of a better way of dealing with things), but misses these two pretty key points... ....that are quite broad in nature and can hide opportunities that may not be immediately apparent. ............. Ken -- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) Web site: XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML services, training, libraries, products. Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-02-0 Next instructor-led training: 1999-11-08, 1999-11-09, 1999-12-05/06, - 1999-12-07, 2000-02-27/28, 2000-05-11/12, 2000-05-15 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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