Re: [design question]

> I have a servlet based application where the servlet recieves xml from
> another application and then uses xalan to transform that xml to html
using
> xsl on the server side.
>
> Now all that goes through to the browser is html so every transaction
using
> the mvc pattern has a stylesheet associated with it. The problem is that
now
> my stylesheets are too huge. One of them for example has 1653 lines, which
> is difficult to maintain, even though templated and also I am not sure
what
> it does for the loading time of each stylesheet before transformation.
Right
> now I dont see any problem but i was wondering whether I could improve
this
> design.
>
> Could I use import/include to put all the javascript in a separate .js
file
> and include it when the stylesheet loads. Would this slow down or fasten
the
> process.
>
> Could I do the same for templates in the stylesheets, for example, each
> stylesheet has a status bar, I could put that in a status.xsl and
> include/import on it later.
>
> Notice that I use import/include because I dont know what the difference
is.
> Can someone please tell me which is faster.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> TP.
Jeni,  Micheal, Tobias any ideas/suggestions.

Thanks.

TP.

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