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On 3/2/06, Gowri Ratakonda <gratakonda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am a newbie and need the experts' advice so that I > can go in the right direction ..... > > For a long time our team has extracted the data we > wanted, output it as text files, used Perl to convert > them into HTML for our customers. > > Now, our plan is to put the data in XML files. And my > job is to transform these XML files to XHMTL for our > users. We support these three browsers: > IE, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla(UNIX) > > Although our initial goal is to publish static pages > right now, we would like to publish dynamic pages > eventually. For example, allowing the user to choose > to look at a given section of the XML file. > > So is it a good idea to rely on these three browsers' > XSLT processor to do the transformation, or should I > look into other tools? If yes, what are the tools that > I should consider? This topic polarises opinions. For me server-side is the only choice... The idea of off-loading the transform "burden" to the client is nice but not really that benificial when all things are considered. A google search reveals all the previous conversations about this: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&hs=Yyq&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla: en-US:official_s&q=server+side+vs+client+side+transforms&spell=1 > And what's the best method of generating PDFs from > these XML files? One way is to use XSL:FO - I don't know if that's the best. One problem if you are publishing to the web and to PDF is that you have to maintain both an XSLT and an XSL:FO when a change is needed. Another option maybe to publish to XHTML and then look for an XHTML -> PDF conversion... I wonder if anyone has a solution for this now?
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