RE: Replacing IIS with iSeries 400

Don,

JavaScript is great for those minor tasks that do not benefit from a
server request. They are also useful in setting values on an HTML
form. As far as benefits from mixing JavaScript and XML, they would
not be much different than with JavaScript and HTML. In a browser
environment XML means XHTML, which is an XML-compliant version
of HTML.  With the exception of XHTMl it is best to keep XML on the
server (at least away from the browser).

The main way that you mix XML and browsers is via stylesheets. A
stylesheet converts XML to browser friendly XHTML or HTML. Stylesheets
can be the old Cascading Style sheet variety, or the newer XSL variety.
XSL is much more powerful, but more complicated. XSP is a tool that
helps in you combine XML, custom tags, and stylesheets.

David Morris


>>> Don.Schenck@pfizer.com 10/01/01 12:50PM >>>
David --

I misspoke. I meant to say "XML and JavaScript".

-- Don

-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris [mailto:David.Morris@plumcreek.com]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:48 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Replacing IIS with iSeries 400


Don,

JSP pretty much rules out any intensive XML processing. There is a
derivative known as XSP, which is the purists implementation. You can
find out more about XSP at xml.apache.org. Select the Cocoon XML
publishing project.

David Morris

>
> Can I do the same thing using XML and JSP with the 400?
>
> -- Don Schenck