Just a comment. If I'm reading you correctly, there is some confusion about xml and xsl.
Xml is the data that is in the tree structure. Yes, this is often created dynamically by extracting data from a source (often a database) and enclosing it in the hierarchical XML tags. XSL is the style sheet which is used to transform the XML into an HTML page. This can be called in an HTML page I believe so you do not have to use JSP. However, you would not really want to generate your XSL dynamically because you want the results to be consistent, I would think, and just the data to be dynamic. If you have multiple displays that you want to enable, probably using several XSL files that are called based on a logic switch would work. Alternatively, you can have the XML data drive the display, for example, within the XSL you can state that if there are more than 3 entries within a tag, you want to display "..." instead of crowding the page with too much data. And then provide a link to another page that would provide the details just for that tag. Hope this helps, Margaret -----Original Message----- From: Colin Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XML and Java Tim I'm not too hot on xml with java, but in msxml, files are just the storage mechanism. To use xml (or xsl) the file is read in to create a tree and it is the xml tree which you transform with the xsl tree. Therefore you could create the xsl tree dynamically and transform your node with this. -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chen, Gin Sent: 09 November 2001 16:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XML and Java Hi all, I read an interesting article on using XML instead of JSPs for presentation layer. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-xmlj2ee_p.html While the article was very interesting, I am no java/xml expert. Especially when it comes to using XSL. My question for everyone is: I want to use the XML presentation logic but I also want to have a Java Class dynamically create XSL for the XMLs to use. 1) Is that possible? 2) How do we reference an XSL file that does not have a physical existence? Thanks. -Tim =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
