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RE: XSLT Architecture: Next Step

2003-07-03 10:02:46
Rob,

Do you think it's so powerful per se to put at a side languages like Java, VB, 
C++ or Cobol for Data Management, when most of the current data architectures 
are RDB or VSAM? 

Don't you think it should be better considered as a next step processing for 
presentation purposes?  

Claudio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:me(_at_)robrohan(_dot_)com]
Sent: Jueves, 03 de Julio de 2003 01:00 p.m.
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Architecture: Next Step


Now, from the msgs I see on the list I see that people pretend to use
XSLT for whatever they figure out (maybe also for cooking). 

About 10% of the projects I have used xslt in have been for
presentation. XSLT, to me, has nothing to do with presentation per se. I
use it to take XML and change its form to whatever is needed.

I think there are 2 rather distinct forms of XML - data centric and
document centric - and XSLT can transform both kinds.

I think you would be doing yourself a disservice to think that XSLT is
somehow tied at the hip with presentation. It may have started that way,
but I am not sure that is the future of the language.

Cheers,
Rob

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Rob Rohan <me(_at_)robrohan(_dot_)com>


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