[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] XML+XSL to HTML strategies advice needed please!
Hello, all. I have recently taken over the task of proposing an alternative to our straight JSP => HTML framework. This is currently a poor excuse for separating content and presentation.. so I went looking for something else. XML/XSL to the rescue. Here is some things we would like to do : - JSP->XML->XSLT->(HTML | WML | ...?) (all done on serverside) - Localization (all text, images, prompts etc, would be in a specified language) - Strong separate of content/presentation. What I am curious about is different approaches and strategies for transforming XML to HTML with XSLT. For instance : Is it advised that there be a separate XML structure (DTD) for each page? Yes they will contain different information... and of course will be made as modular as possible to promote structure re-use.. Is it advised to have different XSL files for each page? Since all text and images will be localized for a specific (choosable) language... how can one cleanly pass through things like link HREFs and and image SRC-URLs etc.. I may not be making myself very clear right now... it is all very abstract to me still. I have looked at many examples and tutorials but they all seem to think that everyone just wants to format a listing of books within an unordered list. I'm more looking for complete site strategies and approaches... methods of re-use and modularization across pages... templates and methodologies for reusing image template and anchor templates etc... Is anyone else doing this? I would be interested in what people have to say in this regard, Thanks, Dylan Parker XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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