Basically I want most every peice of HTML code to be customizable. My
application is very data-oriented and therefore displaying 100 items on
the screen could mean a couple hundred calls to the custom tag.
I actually have it working fairly efficiently. On extreemly large pages
it only adds about 900ms to the generation time. The reason i'm looking
at an XML solution is that its just SO much more elegant and I could let
the customer put the XSL sheet on their own server and modify it to their
hearts content and I wouldnt have to do anything.
--
Brian Bray
Sr. Web Applications Developer
Nowalls Inc.
801.303.3830
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, David Sparkman wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I have not used a XSL/CF Combo to create the effect of a
> skinable/multilingual application. However, I have built these types of
> applications using ColdFusion and a couple of custom tags that I developed.
> What type of overhead issues are you experiencing?
>
> Thanks,
> David Sparkman
> Application Development Team Leader
> Weberize, Inc.
> http://www.weberize.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Bray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:44 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Using XML to create extreemly "brandable" applications
>
>
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Brian Bray
> Sr. Web Applications Developer
> Nowalls Inc.
> 801.303.3830
>
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