Re: [xslt] Compiling stylesheets

[Bernhard Zwischenbrugger <bz datenkueche com>]

On Monday 06 August 2001 15:45, you wrote:
>  >o Write complite WebApplicatoins in XSLT
>  >o No need for an additional scripting languages
>
> How do you authenticate users with XSLT?
Why not use a XML-File for username/password
and include it with 
document('users.xml')
It's no problem to validate u/p compinations using XSLT.

> Log requests to a logfile?
If apache-log is not enough, this a problem.

> Use databases?
If you don't have thousands of lines in a table, there is no need for
a relational database. Store your data in nativ XML.
It's nice to have data in a tree-structur.
In the future maybe it will be possible to integrate XML-Query
(http://www.w3.org/XML/Query)
to XSLT.

To write data to a XML-File is specified in XForms.
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/)

> IMO, you'll need something more than just an XSLT-processor if
> you want to build a real application.
That's the question.
For deliver data to a browser XSLT is enough, for data manipulaton
at the moment you need more than XSLT.
(for example XForms)

Maybe this discussion would fit better to a W3C mailinglist.

Bernhard