RE: XSL/XSLT (was Re: A thought:)

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Abdin [mailto:aliabdin aucegypt edu]
> 
> * Gregory Leblanc (GLeblanc cu-portland edu) wrote at 22:44 
> on 28/11/00:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ali Abdin [mailto:aliabdin aucegypt edu]
> > > 
> > > 2) The server applies an XSL style sheet to an XML document 
> > > to transform it
> > > to some other format (generally HTML) and sends the 
> > > transformed document to
> > > the client (Web browser).
> > 
> > Cocoon and gnome-db2html2 are here.
> 
> What is Cocoon?

Oh, good point.  Take a look at http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/ for some more
info.

> Also - some of the difficult things we do in C 
> (gnome-db2html2) looks like
> they can be more easily done in XSLT (especially since we use 
> the SAX API (and
> not DOM))

Cool.  I'm really looking forward to post-1.4 for docs people, it will give
us an opportunity to change a few things, and add a bunch of versatility to
our docs (I hope).  We've still got a lot to do before 1.4 is ready though
(yeah, I'm reading mail instead of working)

> > > 3) A third program transforms the original XML document into 
> > > some other
> > > format (often HTML) before the document is placed on the 
> > > server. Both server
> > > and client only deal with the post-transform document.
> > 
> > db2html is here.
> 
> db2html is too slow. I am talking about "run-time" 
> transformation (we won't
> know until we get decent tools for it).

But option 3 above is NOT a run-time solution.  It's a "build time"
solution, which is what db2html is.  I don't think it's a good idea, but I
think that's what it's talking about.  Later,
	Greg