Article:		Architectural Style
Subject:		Usefulness of XSLT
Date:		2001-08-16 23:48:00
From:		Eli Lato
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one wondering if I was right to try XSLT to generate HTML. I'll have to persuade my customer to go with a technology that: 1 Is far, far slower than JSP. 2 Necessites learning a new, quirky language. 3 Generates HTML with Hebrew characters as &entities, so that the HTML is unreadable. If my customer tells me, "Trash it. We'll go with JSP.", I couldn't blame him. Eli Lato

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• Usefulness of XSLT
  2001-08-17 06:42:02 Michael Maron [Reply]
  
  Regarding Eli's remark on using XSLT for nationalization, I believe there is a _simple_ way to generate XML documents from proprietary documents: build proprietary2XML converter in any programming language like C with printf(). Once we have XML, use standard XML techniques like XSLT and DOM to process it.

  
  As for Hebrew and other non-English specifics, I don't think this has much to do with XSLT as such. That's about encodings and Unicode, see W3C guidelines.