Article:		Overcoming Objections to XML-based Authoring Systems
Subject:		XML-Based Authoring Systems
Date:		2001-03-23 07:22:14
From:		sriram bhamidipati
Please provide a small overview of architecture. On our side, we have problems in defining the input and retrieval mechanisms or, programs of XML content. for example, if we use forms in HTML, how easily can the backend get the forms data as XML for strorage and processing? We have a mix and match of Netscape 4.x and IE 5.x browsers One supports XSLT and one doesn't. so, there are architecture issues and how do you work these out?

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• XML-Based Authoring Systems
  2001-04-05 10:28:49 Brian Buehling [Reply]
  
  Although no architecture will fit every situation, hopefully these responses will help out:

  
  1) Actually, data submitted through HTML forms can be readily stored as XML data. Once the form fields are mapped to XML elements, extracting the data from each field and inserting the appropriate markup is straight forward.

  
  2) You can still use XSLT to render XML documents in HTML even if you need to support users with older browsers. However, the XSLT transformation will have to be moved to the server (JSP, Java Servlets, ASP, etc) so the browser recieves only HTML.

  
  Brian Buehling
  buehling@dakota-systems.net