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

Tools is a major reason. There are not out of the box XSL tools for creating
re-usable XSL "widgets". While the JSP ones may not be all they are cracked
up to be, they sell better than no tool.

-- bk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:Peter.Hunsberger@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:32 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE:  Need 3 good reasons why XSLT is better than
> JSP+Velocit y
> 
> 
> > 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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