Hello David!
> A bit of a vague enquiry...
>
> Is anyone our there using XML and XSL to generate their
> output from their servlets?
>
> If so, do you have any comments, experiences or just general
> advice to share on the topic?
I am heavily using XML and XSL.
Comment:
It is great. Using XSL I do not have to code conversion
code. Instead I need only write some rules and these will
generate the output. And I have a very good separation of
data from presentation. I can easily swap the XSL file to
create different presentations.
> Any discussion as to the pro's and con's of this approach?...
Drawbacks:
Sending plain XML to the client will only work if the client
is IE5 (right now). XSL has not become a W3C recommendation
yet (only XSLT), so if you use an XSL processor from one
vendor you cannot easily switch to another vendor.
I create HTML from XML using XSL at the server. So the client
can be both Netscape and IE and I can do some caching at the
server. I use CSS to format the output.
Regards
Bernhard
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