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[xsl] Question - Please answer as best you can with what little info there is

2008-05-05 11:37:20
There is a website called www.worldofwarcraft.com

Many times, (I think now they have a splash page up so it might mess up
the home page), the home page extension is litterally .xml.

What I want to know is how are they rendering the pages?

Do you think they are using lots of XML/XSL to create the pages? 

How do they get a .xml page to load, yet with so many graphics.

I want to see about emulating them to that level of sophistication.

Is it just a veil, and somehow the .xml extension gets on there
accidentally or can we really make such amazing sites now with a .xml
extension.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay(_at_)bryantcs(_dot_)com] 
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:32 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th Edition

I'll get two: one for me and one for a friend whose job is now forcing
her down the XML/XSL path (about time from my point of view, of course).

Thanks, Mike.

Jay Bryant

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kay" <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:28 AM
Subject: [xsl] XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th Edition


Just read the relevant W3 Specs and any good XSLT book.

Speaking of which, the 4th edition of my "XSLT 2.0 Programmer's
Reference"
is now finally in my hands, so although it has been pre-announced
several
times on this list, I thought I might say a few words about it.

In production terms, the publishers seem to have done an excellent
job. 
XSLT
and XPath are now back in one book, and although this is now over 1300
pages, the paper quality and binding are much better than the 3rd
edition,
and the book is no thicker or heavier than the 900-page XSLT volume of
the
3rd edition. I know that many readers give the book heavy use and
complain
about it falling apart; hopefully the hard cover format will make this

less
likely in future. The publishers have also fixed all the 
frequently-reported
problems in the previous edition: the diagrams are much improved,
there is 
a
vastly better index, and above all the alphabetically-organized
chapters 
now
have running page headers that tell you where you are in the chapter.
It's
also easy to find the right chapter by virtue of printed marks on the
page
edges.

The changes to the content are largely (a) to bring XSLT and XPath
back
together into one volume, (b) to bring the content up-to-date with the

final
W3C specifications of January 2007, (c) miscellaneous updating of
product
information, etc, and (d) correction of errors.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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