Wendell,
I thought the XML as a way to represent data, not instructions. Why you compare
with HTML?
Claudio.
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From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Martes, 01 de Julio de 2003 12:58 p.m.
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML
Claudio,
At 09:18 AM 7/1/2003, David wrote:
I don't have access to a server (I did some applications in a free
site hosting), the transformations aren't done in this case in the
client side?
If you don't have access to either a sever or a client that can do XSLT
then you can't use XSLT, you have to just write HTML.
You can still, however, write XML at home and convert it into HTML in batch
mode, then serve up the HTML the old-fashioned way.
"Poor man's XML". Yet a surprisingly effective way to use it -- you still
get many or most of the advantages of XML: you can tag your documents to
their type instead of maintaining the HTML tagging, which is useless for
anything but web pages. Assuming you do the design right, you'll still get
XML's economies of scale (from the "separation of format from content" etc.
etc.), robustness and reusability of your data, and all that. (Whether this
would be worthwhile in your particular case, of course, depends on why
you're using XML.)
It's the application of markup language technologies in back offices like
this, invisible to the world, that led Chet Ensign to title a book "SGML:
the Billion-Dollar Secret".
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