According to Perrin Harkins:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > XML and XSLT can provide this. Rather than write pages to a
> > specific style with toolbars in the right place, and format things how I
> > want them, I can write in XML, and down transform to HTML using a
> > stylesheet. When I want to change the look of my site I change the
> > stylesheet and the site changes with it. This isn't magic - a lot of
> > template systems exist today - many of them written right here for
> > mod_perl. But XSLT allows me to leverage those XML skills again. And I
> > think authoring XML is easier than most of those template tools (although
> > XSLT isn't trivial).
>
> Just a small plug for one of my favorite modules: Template Toolkit is very
> easy to use, and a couple of people have written plug-ins for it that
> handle arbitrary XML. If you're working on a project where you need to
> turn XML into HTML and want non-programmers to write and maintain the HTML
> templates, they may find it easier than XSLT. Of course, it's a Perl-only
> solution.
One other thing about XML/XSL is that if the browser is IE5, instead
of doing the transformation to HTML on the server you can send
instructions to the browser to get each separately and render to
HTML itself. This could be a big win if you have rapidly changing
data in XML format because you end up sending essentially static
pages (or perhaps passing through directly from some other source)
and the unchanging XSL will be cached on the browser side.
IE5 can also let you view raw XML in a fairly intelligent way
even without XSL.
Les Mikesell
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