I have only found one problem with XML and XSL, that the only full
support is with IE and if you want to hit a wider area market you would
have to find a way of overcoming the browser obstacle. One solution
that I have done, was still create a XML document and have it stored on
the server, a and with the request made have coldfusion parse the XML
and create the document that was needed.
I will look into trying to see about designing a colander XML data input
HTML output tag, considering I am developing a colander app right now,
and I am planning on putting in as many features as I can in it, so that
I can reuse it where ever I want.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Gallant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 9:36 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: OT: designing output custom tags
My company is looking into developping a set of custom tags to speed up
development of sites for our clients. We want to make modules for the
commonly used componants (forums, calendars, etc). The problem I have
is
that different clients want their forums and calendars to have different
layouts, often requiring us to modify the module itself, then we're
stuck
with many slightly different versions of the same module to upkeep. I
was
thinking of collecting the data from a database into an XML structure
and
using a different XSL sheet for each site to lay the data out. I'm
concerned about the overhead here. The only mature XSLT tag I was able
to
find is giaXT2 and it required the XML to be in a file on the hard drive
and
not just a string in memory. I don't want to have to write out a file
every
time I'm going to do an output. Anyone have any suggestions on a better
way
of working out this problem?
I also have another question. These custom tags of mine would be a bit
big
and general purpose so I'd like to have them written in fusebox. The
problem I have is that we do virtual hosting for several different
clients
under different domains. Is it possible to place a fusebox app in the
custom tag directory of the server so each application can call it, or
do I
have to maintain several copies, one for each application?
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