Hi Jonathan, Most XSLT users process data server-side and then send the result of the transformation to the client. This is a safer approach than sending XML and XSLT to the client.
XSLT is a wonderful technology. A while back we did some XML and XSLT training for the Canadian government. For those that want a hands on approach to learning XSLT, here are a few labs. Lab 4 lets you practice XPath and Lab 5 lets you practice XSLT. Here is the link: http://belus.com/training/ Also, Jonathan, I had a look at your XSLT. You can optimize it a bit if you replace several <xsl:if> with <xsl:for-each> or <xsl:template>. Regards, -Vlad http://xstandard.com XStandard Development Team ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan T. Sage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:43 PM Subject: [WSG] Experimentations in XSLT > Good afternoon <or insert more appropriate time of day> > > Recently, after the pursuit of a site that does conform to XHTML 1.1 > and CSS2, I became very interested in the XSL/XSLT language, since my > site has a XML CMS back end already. I began to look at ways to cut > out the PHP step. My experimentations have proved to be very > interesting, with 2 caveats: > > 1.) Obviously 2 pass processing doesn't work. Catching PHP embedded > in the source XML becomes impossible. At this time, I don't have a > fix for this. > > 2.) Firefox (in fact all gecko based browsers) do not support my > method of embedding HTML in XML... results are interesting, but > expected. Opera doesn't like this method at all, and IE6 displays > perfectly. > > Since this list is standards based, and I've yet to see any real > writeup about XSLT and what it is capable of, I figured a would share > what I found with all of you. More information about what I did is > available here: > > http://jtsage.com/apathy/archives/2004/12/08/xslt-part-1/ > > and here: > > http://jtsage.com/apathy/archives/2004/12/09/xslt-part-2/ > > If anyone has any information on how to fix #2, I'd also love to hear > it. Hope this proves to be a good read! > > ~j > > -- > Jonathan T. Sage > Theatrical Lighting / Set Designer > Professional Web Design > > [HTTP://www.JTSage.com] > [HTTP://design.JTSage.com] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
