RE: Transform XML to HTML

[Andreas Grytz]

> maybe it's only a question of good style, but when someone has to
> transform a XML-Data into HTML, is it {safer|better|easier|common} to
> do something like this
> 
> <xsl:element name="table">
> <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">#000000</xsl:attribute>
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="tr"/>
> </xsl:element>
> 
> or an I simply write
> 
> <table bgcolor="#000000">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="tr"/>
> </table>
> 
> Someone on this list said, that one has to "think in nodes". 
> IMHO is the
> first one closer to that. Suggestions?
> 

<table bgcolor="#000000">...</table> is a perfectly good node, one that
will get put into the result tree.

The two forms produce the same result,  and the second is easier to read
(as well as to type).  Therefore it will be easier to maintain, debug,
and modify.  So the second form wins hands down.  I only use the first
form when I need to do something special that cannot be done with
literal result syntax.  That is not very often.

Cheers,

Tom P

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