Re: Practicality of Separating Data from Presentation

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Subject: Re: Practicality of Separating Data from Presentation
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:02:26 -0400

Tim--

At 05:31 PM 7/1/2002, you wrote:

I have seen some code like the following:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><</xsl:text>%= Now %<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">></xsl:text>

as a way to create ASP code. What would be some pro's and con's to this approach - assuming there are both?

One would hope if you're doing this very much that you'd code up something like:

<xsl:template name="asptag">
  <xsl:param name="asp" select="' '"/>
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;%</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="asp"/>
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">%&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>


... <xsl:call-template name="asptag">
       <xsl:with-param name="asp">= Now </xsl:with-param>
    </xsl:call-template>

And note that this kind of stylesheet only works when outputting serialized text after your transformation ('cause of the d-o-e).

Doesn't ASP have an XML-friendly format?

FWIW, the notion that XSL is broken since it "doesn't separate data from presentation" is kind of funny in view of the fact that it was designed to be a presentation-tier thing ... run in the client, target FO etc. ...; it's only because it's so darned versatile that everyone's using it in the middle tier at all....

Cheers,
Wendell


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Re: Practicality of Separating Data from Presentation, (continued)
- intelikon - Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:31:32 -0400 (EDT)
  - Robert S. Koberg - Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:54:27 -0400 (EDT)
    - J.Pietschmann - Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:54:29 -0400 (EDT)
    - Robert S. Koberg - Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:15:45 -0400 (EDT)
  - Wendell Piez - Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:05:35 -0400 (EDT) <=
    - Conal Tuohy - Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:49:51 -0400 (EDT)
    - bryan - Tue, 2 Jul 2002 04:25:17 -0400 (EDT)
    - bryan - Tue, 2 Jul 2002 05:30:19 -0400 (EDT)
  - subbu - Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:32:40 -0400 (EDT)

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