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Re: [xsl] Question - Please answer as best you can with what little info there is

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When you view source, you will see a processing instruction at the top.
the page uses:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/new-hp/layout/layout.xsl

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:36 -0400, Dan Acuff wrote:
> There is a website called www.worldofwarcraft.com
> 
> Many times, (I think now they have a splash page up so it might mess up
> the home page), the home page extension is litterally .xml.
> 
> What I want to know is how are they rendering the pages?
> 
> Do you think they are using lots of XML/XSL to create the pages? 
> 
> How do they get a .xml page to load, yet with so many graphics.
> 
> I want to see about emulating them to that level of sophistication.
> 
> Is it just a veil, and somehow the .xml extension gets on there
> accidentally or can we really make such amazing sites now with a .xml
> extension.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:32 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th Edition
> 
> I'll get two: one for me and one for a friend whose job is now forcing
> her down the XML/XSL path (about time from my point of view, of course).
> 
> Thanks, Mike.
> 
> Jay Bryant
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:28 AM
> Subject: [xsl] XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th Edition
> 
> 
> > >Just read the relevant W3 Specs and any good XSLT book.
> >
> > Speaking of which, the 4th edition of my "XSLT 2.0 Programmer's
> Reference"
> > is now finally in my hands, so although it has been pre-announced
> several
> > times on this list, I thought I might say a few words about it.
> >
> > In production terms, the publishers seem to have done an excellent
> job. 
> > XSLT
> > and XPath are now back in one book, and although this is now over 1300
> > pages, the paper quality and binding are much better than the 3rd
> edition,
> > and the book is no thicker or heavier than the 900-page XSLT volume of
> the
> > 3rd edition. I know that many readers give the book heavy use and
> complain
> > about it falling apart; hopefully the hard cover format will make this
> 
> > less
> > likely in future. The publishers have also fixed all the 
> > frequently-reported
> > problems in the previous edition: the diagrams are much improved,
> there is 
> > a
> > vastly better index, and above all the alphabetically-organized
> chapters 
> > now
> > have running page headers that tell you where you are in the chapter.
> It's
> > also easy to find the right chapter by virtue of printed marks on the
> page
> > edges.
> >
> > The changes to the content are largely (a) to bring XSLT and XPath
> back
> > together into one volume, (b) to bring the content up-to-date with the
> 
> > final
> > W3C specifications of January 2007, (c) miscellaneous updating of
> product
> > information, etc, and (d) correction of errors.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/

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