Le Samedi, 7 juin 2003, à 19:06 Europe/Zurich, Steve Brackenbury a écrit :...Also, my development team is experienced with XSL. I'm concerned about how they will react to XSL. They are experienced JSP developers. What kind of balking might I encounter? How can I get them to give XSL a fair assessment? Any tips on convincing them of the benefits?...
I assume you mean "not experienced".
Sorry for the typo. Yes, I meant *not* experienced.
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Compared to JSP, I think XSLT's advantages are mostly in the ability to generate different formats (HTML, HTML+CSS, SVG, PDF, RTF, WAP, etc.) with similar tools and reusable chunks of XSLT code. If your app produces only HTML the difference in maintainability might not be so important.
I'm hoping to partition the responsibility of page design layout and content assembly as much as possible. We may out-source the page layout/design for our project to an external group. I'd like to take an approach whereby developers are really merging content from the business model with a template page created by a page designer. The designer should not have to know about XSL details.
I came across an article by Ovidiu Predescu (http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/weblog/index.html) discussing a topic originated by Eric van der Vlist (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/07/26/xslt/xsltstyle.html) which appears to address this design approach. Are you familiar with this pattern? What are your thoughts?
Because the developers are inexperienced with XSL. I'd really like to establish some "patterns-of'-usage" up front before development starts. I'm hoping this will simplify things and as you pointed out in your post Bertrand, will help focus developers on using XSL in the way it was intended.
If you have any suggestions on XSL tutorials, patterns or resources you can recommend, I would be grateful.
Yes it does. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience.Hope this helps, -- Bertrand Delacretaz independent consultant, Lausanne, Switzerland http://cvs.apache.org/~bdelacretaz/
regards,
...Steve
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