Re: efficient XML & XSL -> HTML solution

  Hi,
  
  If your XML/XSLT does not change much, I would definitely use the 
  "static" HTML approach.
  
  You should be able to create a trigger on the XML and XSLT files which 
  would automatically run the XSLT processor when either of these files 
  has been modified.  That would provide you a system which has the 
  speed of static HTML, but not require you to explicitly recreate the 
  HTML when the source files change.
  
  Also, if you are creating the XML from another process, such as FTPing 
  the source file each week; that process should be modified to call the 
  XSLT processor itself.
  
     Steve


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Subject:  efficient XML & XSL -> HTML solution
Author:  skhurshid@xxxxxxxxxx at Internet-America
Date:    16-03-2001 3:39 PM


  
  
Hi,
I need an efficient solution for putting together XML & XSL 
and serving it out as HTML. It seems like the most efficient 
way would be to generate static HTML from the XML & XSL
and then serve it out from my Web Server. Or I could use 
mod_xslt for Apache or Cocoon to put these together dynamically 
(i.e. just before the page is served out).
Since I don't need to put them together dynamically, I'm reluctant 
to do this. On the other hand it would be nice not to have
to generate the html every time the XML or XSL changes.
Has anyone tried mod_xslt ? How efficient is it (compared to 
serving straight HTML) ? Does it use caching to speed things up 
(perhaps check the timestamp on the XML & XSL files instead of 
blindly generating the HTML for every request) ?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 
Thanks :-)
-Sher
  
  
  
  
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