On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> Is there anybody using XML ie. HTML via XSL to do all of their UI layout? I
> mean not using XML for multichannel delivery but because it cuts out
> scriptlets when you can use XSL functions to do your data manipulation to
> control your layout?
>
> What references cover the use of XSL to do UI layout with JSP/Sevlets? I saw
> a reference "XML For Real Programmers" that covers this and does so in some
> depth but the book was heavily panned on Amazon.
>
> Anybody else tackle this topic?
>
> I'm not just talking about data delivery via XSLT but doing your HTML layout
> controls via XSL instead of scriptlets.
Hi Robert,
I am doing something similar to this for a web portal for our customers. We
have our HTML layout in XSL and our localizable content in XML files. We do
our application logic using JSP and EJBs and feed the data to our XML tags.
Recently I needed to dynamically create a navigation menu using an HTML table.
This table needed to have a dynamic number of rows depending upon different
user properties. It also needed to be colored to match the customer's
branding. I performed this logic in XSL to dynamically generate the table.
Is that the sort of thing you are asking about?
As for books, I don't know of any that specifically talk about using
XML/XSLT/JSP together. I have been using Michael Kay's excellent "XSLT
Programmer's Reference" and "Web Development with Java Server Pages" published
by Manning.
-M@
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Matt Hixson
Aventail Corporation
Seattle, Washington
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