Question - Please answer as best you can with what lit

There is a website called www.worldofwarcraft.com

Many times, (I think now they have a splash page up so it might mess up
the home page), the home page extension is litterally .xml.

What I want to know is how are they rendering the pages?

Do you think they are using lots of XML/XSL to create the pages?

How do they get a .xml page to load, yet with so many graphics.

I want to see about emulating them to that level of sophistication.

Is it just a veil, and somehow the .xml extension gets on there
accidentally or can we really make such amazing sites now with a .xml
extension.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:32 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th Edition

I'll get two: one for me and one for a friend whose job is now forcing
her down the XML/XSL path (about time from my point of view, of course).

Thanks, Mike.

Jay Bryant

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:28 AM
Subject:  XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th Edition


> >Just read the relevant W3 Specs and any good XSLT book.
>
> Speaking of which, the 4th edition of my "XSLT 2.0 Programmer's
Reference"
> is now finally in my hands, so although it has been pre-announced
several
> times on this list, I thought I might say a few words about it.
>
> In production terms, the publishers seem to have done an excellent
job.
> XSLT
> and XPath are now back in one book, and although this is now over 1300
> pages, the paper quality and binding are much better than the 3rd
edition,
> and the book is no thicker or heavier than the 900-page XSLT volume of
the
> 3rd edition. I know that many readers give the book heavy use and
complain
> about it falling apart; hopefully the hard cover format will make this

> less
> likely in future. The publishers have also fixed all the
> frequently-reported
> problems in the previous edition: the diagrams are much improved,
there is
> a
> vastly better index, and above all the alphabetically-organized
chapters
> now
> have running page headers that tell you where you are in the chapter.
It's
> also easy to find the right chapter by virtue of printed marks on the
page
> edges.
>
> The changes to the content are largely (a) to bring XSLT and XPath
back
> together into one volume, (b) to bring the content up-to-date with the

> final
> W3C specifications of January 2007, (c) miscellaneous updating of
product
> information, etc, and (d) correction of errors.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/