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Claudio,
I'm not (at all) sure I understand the question.
If you mean "descriptive" markup vs. "procedural" markup ... XML can be used for either, though it's particularly well-suited to the latter. In the use case I'm describing, your XML would likely be "descriptive" hence "represent[ing] data, not instructions". Maintain your data in XML, use HTML to publish it. Nothing radical there at all.
How do you take it I was comparing XML with HTML? What I was describing was an architecture for a publishing system that takes advantage of XML but requires neither client-side, nor dynamic server-side processing to get from XML into HTML or other formats such as PDF. In return for accepting some limitations (e.g. user-configured rendering), you get quite a bit of freedom in this model.
Probably that doesn't clarify, so if you could rephrase what you don't understand in what I said, I'd be grateful. :->
At 12:55 PM 7/1/2003, you wrote:
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RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML
Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:27:36 -0400 |
Claudio,
I'm not (at all) sure I understand the question.
If you mean "descriptive" markup vs. "procedural" markup ... XML can be used for either, though it's particularly well-suited to the latter. In the use case I'm describing, your XML would likely be "descriptive" hence "represent[ing] data, not instructions". Maintain your data in XML, use HTML to publish it. Nothing radical there at all.
How do you take it I was comparing XML with HTML? What I was describing was an architecture for a publishing system that takes advantage of XML but requires neither client-side, nor dynamic server-side processing to get from XML into HTML or other formats such as PDF. In return for accepting some limitations (e.g. user-configured rendering), you get quite a bit of freedom in this model.
Probably that doesn't clarify, so if you could rephrase what you don't understand in what I said, I'd be grateful. :->
Cheers, Wendell
At 12:55 PM 7/1/2003, you wrote:
Wendell,
I thought the XML as a way to represent data, not instructions. Why you compare with HTML?
Claudio.
-----Original Message----- From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Martes, 01 de Julio de 2003 12:58 p.m. To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML
Claudio,
At 09:18 AM 7/1/2003, David wrote: > > I don't have access to a server (I did some applications in a free > > site hosting), the transformations aren't done in this case in the > > client side? > >If you don't have access to either a sever or a client that can do XSLT >then you can't use XSLT, you have to just write HTML.
You can still, however, write XML at home and convert it into HTML in batch mode, then serve up the HTML the old-fashioned way.
"Poor man's XML". Yet a surprisingly effective way to use it -- you still get many or most of the advantages of XML: you can tag your documents to their type instead of maintaining the HTML tagging, which is useless for anything but web pages. Assuming you do the design right, you'll still get XML's economies of scale (from the "separation of format from content" etc. etc.), robustness and reusability of your data, and all that. (Whether this would be worthwhile in your particular case, of course, depends on why you're using XML.)
It's the application of markup language technologies in back offices like this, invisible to the world, that led Chet Ensign to title a book "SGML: the Billion-Dollar Secret".
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