Re: A general question

Hi,

> It would make it browser independent, but I'm not sure it would make it
> faster (more work being done on the server, so unless you have a very
small
> number of people using your web site or a very beefy server it would
actually
> make it slower).

So, is it not a good idea to parse on the back end if by doing so, we lose
performance. What do developers generally do? Do they use front-end parsing
or back-end parsing? I know that there are a few book authors on this list.
What would you recommend?

Thanks,

TP.

>
> Whatever you do depends on what server-side language you use.  If you use
> ASP, then plugging in MSXML is pretty easy (although I won't touch ASP
> personally so I can't tell you what to do).  If you have access to a J2EE
> server, then you can write your own Servlet that integrates with your
> favorite Java processor (Xalan, Saxon, etc.).  You should also check out
> Cocoon (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/), which is a server explicitly
designed
> for doing XSLT transformations.  PHP I believe has its own XSLT plugin as
> well.
>
> On Monday 18 February 2002 09:24, TP wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on an servlet based application that was designed by
someone
> > else. What we do is that we send xml data over to the browser and we
rely
> > on the browsers xsl processor (msxml) to parse the xml into viewable
html.
> > what this has done is that we are now very much browser dependant, such
> > that our application cannot be viewed on any other browser other than
IE.
> >
> > What we want to do is, of course, avoid this. What I was told is that if
I
> > used my application server to parse my xml instead of the browser, this
> > would make the process faster and browser independant. i.e., parse the
xml
> > on the server side rather than the client.
> >
> > I am a newbie on this and need some direction about where I should start
> > studying about this. Can someone please guide me on this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > TP.
> >
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