I am creating an application that will be "branded" for use by several
different sites. It will also need to be multi-lingual eventually.
I build a set of custom tags that does a pretty slick job doing variable
interpolation and such to generate different brands and languages on the
fly. But it has some fairly stiff overhead.
What I'm thinking of doing is modifiying the entire application to
generate XML instead of HTML and then dynamically changing which XSL sheet
gets applied for each page view according to what brand and language is to
be used.
The problem is of course that I cant assume everyone is using IE so I need
to have a means to merge the XML and XSL on the server side.
I've used the Microsoft DOM objects before to do XML and XSL processing
and merging, however that would require storing the entire output into
some sort of variable which could get ugly. I was also thinking about
wraping the entire application in a custom tag that would use the
GeneratedContent variable but I dont think I want the overhead of custom
tags and there might be some situations where that might not work.
I'm thinking that the best solution would be to have some sort of server
that processes the output of a CF template and merges it with the XSL
before it pipes it off to the browser.
Has anyone done any similar implementations? Or know of a better way of
doing things?
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Brian Bray
Sr. Web Applications Developer
Nowalls Inc.
801.303.3830
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