Re: [WEB400] XML/XSL

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Addressing your other concerns over the amount of XML
> steps.  I think this is becoming par for the course when you
> need to communicate a bunch of different ways and you don't
> always know what is going to be on the receiving end of your
> program.

Isn't the final output HTML?  Isn't the receiver a browser?

> And if that is the case, what else are you
> going to use, comma separated values?

I agree that XML offers advantages over comma separated values, but what
does that have to do with it?  XML may be good for program to program
communication, but is it good for HTML generation?

Brad Stone likes to point out that technology is often used for the sake of
promoting technology rather than solving problems.  When used in that
manner, the problems only get bigger.  Is such the case when HTML is
generated from XML?

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com