Claudio,
Thanks for persisting with this thread. You are raising issues that seem to
be a barrier to understanding for many.
At 01:37 PM 7/2/2003, you wrote:
It happens that while reading the incoming msgs in the list, I wondered
why, if a standard was on, while all so many people were having so much
trouble deploying (me too) XML/XSLT transactions. For those as you guys,
who have really clear all these flavours maybe looks pretty easy, but it
doesn't look so for the rest.
No, it doesn't. It looks easy to us since we've chosen, for different
reasons, to stick to the "straight and narrow", to place
standards-compliance and vendor-neutrality first and fancy functionalities,
second, even if that means waiting for things such as client-side
processing. (If the cutting edge is proprietary, I'm less interested in it.
That doesn't mean I want to discourage it, as innovations are often
proprietary! It just means that I'm going to be inclined to let more
heavily-capitalized ventures take the lead until the new thing becomes
standard.) But as XSLT evolves and gets implemented within various
frameworks, newcomers naturally have questions about how it all fits
together. Unfortunately, there's no single right answer to this -- often,
they should really be asking the vendors of their tools and toolsets how
*they* mean it to fit together. On the XSL-List, precisely because we are
vendor-agnostic, you are liable to get more generalized answers about how
they fit in theory, not particular answers to how they do or should fit for
you.
Cheers,
Wendell
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