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 As a footnote to what David says, it should be noted that doing things this way also helps clarify a huge, murky confusion, namely what processing happens in the transform and what happens when the output of the transform is loaded by the browser. Running in batch mode -- even (especially) when prototyping, lets you get a good handle on, for example, whatever Javascript you want in your output and how it should work -- as a separate design problem from how your transform works. Design your output, including all the fancy client-side scripting behaviors in your DHTML. Then design the transform that gets your source into this format. (It's been said many times on the list, mostly by David.) An example of what I mean can be seen in a little project I did last year: http://www.piez.org/wendell/Amsel/Amsel.html. This would have been impossible to author in HTML natively (check out the HTML source). XML through a batch transformation aligns elements for scripting in the result. The Javascript is *not* implemented by the transformation engine -- the stylesheet that generates this is standards-compliant, pure XSLT, uses no Javascript, and can be executed in any compliant XSLT engine. The output HTML is loaded up with Javascript -- but the XSLT engine doesn't know about this: to it, the Javascript is just another string. Cheers, Wendell At 04:52 PM 7/1/2003, David wrote: Wendell meant that rather than fight with complexities of cross-browser client side javascript interfaces to XSLT, a simpler and far more popular route is to maintain your XML document and your XSLT file "in house" and then use a command line xslt program (you can use msxsl.exe if you want to stay with MS) to convert your XML files to HTML. You then put these HTML pages on your web server. That way they can be read by any browser without having to worry about XSLT support. ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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