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> -----Original Message----- > From: Claudio Russo [mailto:crusso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 03 July 2003 13:11 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: XSLT Architecture: Next Step > > > I've been looking at Didier's article, > http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/04/19/style/index.html, and I > found it very usefull. Now I have some opinions that brought > to my attention. > > From what I read on it and previously in other articles about > the subject, my first impression was that XSLT pourpose was > to perform the presentation of data in a browser or cel phone > or whatever (which is also well explained on Didier's > article). While doing this, one could preserve the logic of > extracting and calculation to the server, in which ever is > the language that somebody likes to work, from let's say, an > RDB/IMS/VSAM to a XML structure. This way the resulting data > was transfered to the client machine, where an XSLT schema > presented in the way the view device need it (HTML/WAP/Voice). > > Now, from the msgs I see on the list I see that people > pretend to use XSLT for whatever they figure out (maybe also > for cooking). > > The question is (or are): Do you share these views? Speaking as one, fairly long-term user of XSLT I would say that I certainly don't always use XSLT to produce presentation. However, I do normally use it to transform the structures containing information, rather than to transform the information itself. It is not always possible to make such a clean distinction, but it serves pretty well. I have to say that I came to the idea that is often better not to mix transformation of structure with transformation of content when working with EDI systems a few years ago. So I agree pretty much with your statement, with the caveat that the transform doesn't necessarily have to be for the benefit of a presentation layer. All the best Mark Seaborne XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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