Usefulness of XSLT

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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.