RE: use cases for d-o-e

"Nesbitt, David" <DNesbitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use XSLT to generate JSP pages, which I believe falls into your second
> category.  However, I am not willing to accept the notion that I should
> simply use "text" as the output method.  If I do that, it makes it much
> more difficult to retain all of the HTML tags on the JSP page.

It doesn't make it impossible, instead of writing
  <A href="{$url}">stuff</A>
you can write
  &lt;A href=<xsl:value-of select="$url"/>>stuff&lt;/A>
You may need some time to get used to writing it this way, and admittedly
it's harder to read, but you can do it without suffering major brain damage.
Especially if you can use an editor which could be customized to display
&lt; as a bold < or such and does some nice coloring for the xsl instructions.

> I use the saxon:d-o-e extension
> frequently in the <xsl:attribute> tag, because I often want to use JSP
> scriptlets and/or expressions to set HTML attribute values ...

Hehe, even standard d-o-e is not sufficient!
> What do
> you suggest as the long-term solution in this case.  I need further
> convincing that the pain of using "text" as the output method is
> merited.

Well, you have probably started developing your pages with JSP, know
a lot about this technology and it's the easiest way for you to get
dynamic content into your pages.
Now some stuff to get you thinking:
1. Why can't you do all processing in JSP?
2. Why can't you do all processing do in XSLT (perhaps considering
  passing dynamic stuff as parameters or secondary documents pulled
  in with document(), using extension functions or writing customized
  URIResolvers for special URL protocols for accessing external
  ressources)?
3. Why can't you use JSP (or whatever) to generate *XML* and use
  XSLT as the last stage in the processing pipeline?
4. Why can't you invoke the XSL processor *from within* JSP in order
  to embed the result of the transformation there?
5. In case you are batch processing XML to JSP offline, why can't you
  do XSL processing online?

To me, using XSLT to generate JSP/ASP/PHP source online seems to be
rather redundant.

Regards
J.Pietschmann

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