That is also my categorisation.
The current thoughts (all to be validated in the expert gropus) are:
* do (IV) in the standard tag library
* do (III) in the container by providing the mechanism at the Servlet
layer, and perhaps provide a way to access it from JSP.
* II requires finalizing the XML view of a JSP page, so we will look at
this in the JSP spec.
One additional disadvantage of (IV) on the current Servlet spec is that
I only know how to implement it by doing a new client request (so we can
get hold of the XML doc source and apply the transformation -- I am
assuming the source is given as a URL). This we also want to address in
Servlet 2.3.
Hope this helps,
- eduard/o
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:47:37 -0800
> From: Scott Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: JSP generating XML, passed through XSL?
>
> I like this. It's a good thing that different vendors are experimenting with
> different XSL techniques and I'm glad Sun is avoiding XSL for now.
> Standardizing
> before anyone knows what works would be a bad thing.
>
> FYI, here's a list of jsp/xsl techniques that I'm aware of:
>
> I) XSL precompilation. Use any standard XSLT processor to combine an XML page
> and an XSL stylesheet into a JSP file.
> ...
>
> II) Embedded XSL precompilation. Similar to the above, but the servlet engine
> builds the JSP/servlet on the fly.
> ...
>
> III) XSL filtering. A servlet/jsp generates an XML document which then gets
> processed by an XSL stylesheet.
> ...
>
> IV) XSL tags
> ...
>
> Have I missed or misrepresented any?
>
> Scott Ferguson
> Caucho Technology
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