Re: Need 3 good reasons why XSLT is better than JSP+Ve

one thing I haven't heard mentioned is that XSLT is XML. This allows you
many more opportunites than a non-well-formed .jsp

best,
-Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 2:31 PM
Subject: RE:  Need 3 good reasons why XSLT is better than JSP+Velocity


> > They know Java, they argue, so why bother with XSLT?
>
> One good reason: Java doesn't do the job easily.
>
> Since they should be separation presentation from business logic (least of
> all database logic) they should already understand that Java is not a
> presentation language (not that HTML is much better, but that's another
> problem).  There is a mismatch between the job to be done and the tool
> (Java).   Having Java tools create XML for presentation manipulation via
> XSLt is a good architectural separation of function that allows each tool
to
> do what it is good at.
>
> I would also agree that you should consider eliminating JSP's altogether.
> With a good XML/XSLt framework the days of having to mix presentation
> semantics and syntax should be rapidly disappearing.
>
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