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RE: Transform XML to HTML

2003-04-28 09:28:36
When you get into some fancy HTML (ie, lots of embedded tables in embedded
tables in div's) I think it is a lot easier to read html than element
name="table"

Thinking in nodes does not exclude actually writing out nodes in your
templates.  

I think a language like XSL is sufficiently powerful that you can make the
processor do whatever you want in a number of ways.  The bottom line is, if
its all the same when its headed for the processor, then do what is easiest
for a human to read.

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Michael H. Semcheski
Developer, Livewire Media
412-390-1525

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Subject: [xsl] Transform XML to HTML

Hi,

maybe it's only a question of good style, but when someone has to
transform a XML-Data into HTML, is it {safer|better|easier|common} to
do something like this

<xsl:element name="table">
<xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">#000000</xsl:attribute>
 <xsl:apply-templates select="tr"/>
</xsl:element>

or an I simply write

<table bgcolor="#000000">
<xsl:apply-templates select="tr"/>
</table>

Someone on this list said, that one has to "think in nodes". IMHO is the
first one closer to that. Suggestions?

Andreas

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