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Re: Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 20:35:33 GMT
- CC: djacobs at mitre dot org, costello at mitre dot org
- References: <3A8D8B33.DF448411@mitre.org>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> A colleague of mine has written an excellent paper describing a new way
> of looking at creating XSLT documents.
This is just what some people call the "pull" method.
In fact XSLT has a mechanism which is specifically there to make it act
more like the ASP type of templating language that you mention.
Having simplified your stylesheet down to to a single match="/"
template into which you "pull" the data, you can go the next step and
miss out the surrounding xsl:stylesheet and xsl:template elements
and just start off with (typically) the html element.
You just need to have an xsl:version attribute in the xsl namespace.
So your example would be
<HTML xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT bgcolor="{member/favoriteColor}">
Welcome <xsl:value-of select="member/name"/>!
</FONT>
...
</HTML>
No need for xsl:stylesheet.
David
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