I know we are straying WOT, but I would love to get a better feel for XML, XSLT and AxKit. There are a lot of different systems out there. . .and part of me wants to just do it my way (in large part to learn), but I also realize that I really want to get to the business of also being productive.
Per the below, I would imagine some would say XML in and of itself is not worth considering as a contender for being the basis for our C of MVC. AxKit bills itself as an XML application. Would ppl suggest just using an XSLT parser. . .or is it worth looking at AxKit. If anyone is willing to share their experiences, knowledge, insight -- off the ML is okay, too -- I would _really_ appreciate it! Thanks, Ward >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Monday 10 June 2002 11:23 pm, Vuillemot, Ward W wrote: >> : Really interesting, xml >> : appears to be >> : the final destination for most of us, even if now i >> : prefer objects. >> : >> : Ciao, Valerio >> >> That is my big question. Is XML/XSLT really the right solution? Using SAX >> along with having tags call handlers seems like a pretty powerful way to >> get a very cool tool to build powerful templating services. I haven't >> decided if XSLT really is worth the effort as it just seems like a >> glorified XML (yes; it is indeed) -- what I mean to say, does XSLT really >> have any real value since everything it does can be done in Perl. If I got >> make handlers for XSLT, too -- then why even use XSLT? Just go back to >> plain XML and do it all on my own, no? > >There's quite a few things that are a lot harder to do with XML in plain perl >(especially in SAX) than they are in XSLT. It's really hard to explain this >to anyone who hasn't yet learned XSLT's template model, but the simplest >thing to describe is that looping back to previous tags is really hard with >SAX (you have to use some sort of node caching technique). > >One thing a lot of people will argue is that XSLT is verbose and ugly. And I >totally agree. But get over it. Perl is ugly too. But once you start using >XSLT for any length of time you start to realise just why it is designed like >it is, and you start to appreciate that design (and this is from someone who >has so far designed *two* alternatives to XSLT!). > >- -- ><:->get a SMart net</:-> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE9BZcbVBc71ct6OywRAv81AKDMDkWvAOhwY3A0vDlxxHSK7Y6qOACgm3ni >VRLe9kmR9i3tDcMJAKr8d7s= >=2Xpn >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Ward W. Vuillemot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
