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Subject: [xsl] Calling xslt templates from asp
From: "Andrew Mottershead" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:45:58 -0000

Hello there folks,

I'm putting together a web app using xslt. As there are no good wysiwyg
xhtml editors out there YET nad the visual xslt tools are very limiting
we are currently designing the front end in Dreamweaver html -
converting this to xhtml via HTMLTidy - then using this as the starting
point for our XSLT templates. Which means that visual tweeks have then
to be done by hand by the programmer and not the designer and take a lot
of time.

I've been playing around with the idea of using asp pages for the front
end with calls to xslt to create the data driven aspects of the app.

So, for example, an asp template using normal HTML markup would have
regions within the <% %> tags which call standard xslt stylesheets via
variables eg type="textarea", xpath="/node/item" width="45"  and so on.
This call would then be replaced with the results of a XSLT tranform
(we'd have to create templates for the different items to be called) so
when rendered in the asp is replaced with a textarea html element.

The designer would then be able to work with the html layout without
having to learn or even be aware of the underlying xslt. We could even
create dreamweaver extensions with a dialogue so they enter all the
correct parameters.

Now  - has this already been done using asp (it does not need to be in
dreamweaver just asp)? If so does anyone know whether this is documented
on the www or does anyone have any ideas on this - at the moment this is
just an idea as we are looking at ways of speeding up the development
process?


regards
 
Andrew Mottershead
Web Developer
Mindstream Web Design

email: andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tel: +44 (0)1743 718262
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