Yeah, You are right, to update a tiny pice of text daily I'm best off with the html bits instead of xml
I was thinking more of another case I have where I need to update the html each time the page gets loaded. If the pieces I need to rotate on the page are more than 20, how do you suggest I go about it? Also an html for each piece? Thanks 2007/2/19, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hey Esther, > > Esther Fuldauer a écrit : > > Do you see the big picture now? I'm stuck with server-side scripting at > > the moment. > > Client-side, actually :-) > > > By the way, now that I have you in the thread, do you know or could > > "Now that you have *me* in the thread?" Uh?! > > > indicate me whree I could find some example on how to do this using xml > > instead of html for the data? > > Well, I can't see how useful that would be. I mean, you're already > applying a band-aid over it because you can't, so far, do it properly > (server-side). Why would you want to add extra complexity by moving it > to XML? This doesn't appear to be useful at all. > > I mean: > > 1) The data you're getting back are to be presented as HTML > 2) Their semantics is probably properly represented by <p> and the like. > 3) The data isn't generated by something else, then hand-converted to > HTML, is it? It's created as HTML already, I suppose? So why adding > unnecessary juggling? > 4) Client-side processing of this XML would require manual exploration > of its DOM (I assume you have no control over the client-side browsers, > so XPath or E4X are out of the question), and XHTML DOM building (even > with script.aculo.us' Builder...). Or even worse: XSL/T transforms! Yay! > > So, in a word: are you *sure* you want to add this extraneous complexity? > > -- > Christophe Porteneuve aka TDD > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Esther Fuldauer Web Developer & Designer tlf. 972355421 movil 679066844 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
