Article:		Architectural Style
Subject:		xslt as glue
Date:		2001-08-17 07:42:04
From:		Michael Maron
Response to: xslt as glue
I agree completely! IMHO, following the reaction of those who are disappointed with XSLT is very useful. -- Working on real XSLT-related projects and going through S. Muench's BUILDING ORACLE XML APPLICATIONS, it is easy to see that XSLT is by no ways the only language involved: PL/SQL is necessary to work with database, C/C++/Java are necessary to work outside of database. -- XSLT developer takes care of portability as with any other language. -- I would not compare XSLT and JavaScript. XSLT is a (non-legal) standard, while JavaScript is basically vendor-supported. Then JavaScript is used mostly on client side, while the best way to use XSLT is on the server side. -- DOM does have transformation features. However, I use it for parsing to data structures only. Then these data structures are processed by PL/SQL(in my case). -- A good way to develop in XSLT is to do this like with SQL. Prepare XSLT stylesheet outside of application code first, build it into application next. In fact, it is better to work with XML/XSLT with certain database experience... Best, Michael

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