RE: [WEB400] XML/XSL

["Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@xxxxxx>]

Although I'm far from clear on the details at this point, my
understanding is that by changing the application that generates my web
pages to instead generate XML, I will later be able to selectively apply
XSL style sheets based on the type of device accessing my site. This
will greatly simplify the application by offloading presentation, and
will make graphic design changes much simpler (I don't even use CSS
right now). I would like to be accessible by PDAs and such now, and who
knows what the future holds.

Performance is not a big concern since everything is cached. But that's
why I was interested to know if the style sheets could be applied
locally to generate XHTML pages into the cache instead of leaving it to
an unknown, that is, whether the visitor's browser understands XML/XSL.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan M. Andelin

> Isn't XSL really a programming language with looping 
> constructs, conditional
> logic, and so forth?  Well, such is the case with object oriented
> vocabulary, which sadly tends to get more convoluted over time.
> 
...
> 
> Consider that servlets or JSPs typically transform SQL result 
> sets to XML,
> then another program (XSL) is evoked to transform the XML into HTML.
 
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