Re: [xsl] A general question

[Peter Davis <pdavis152 at attbi dot com>]

It would make it browser independent, but I'm not sure it would make it 
faster (more work being done on the server, so unless you have a very small 
number of people using your web site or a very beefy server it would actually 
make it slower).

Whatever you do depends on what server-side language you use.  If you use 
ASP, then plugging in MSXML is pretty easy (although I won't touch ASP 
personally so I can't tell you what to do).  If you have access to a J2EE 
server, then you can write your own Servlet that integrates with your 
favorite Java processor (Xalan, Saxon, etc.).  You should also check out 
Cocoon (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/), which is a server explicitly designed 
for doing XSLT transformations.  PHP I believe has its own XSLT plugin as 
well.

On Monday 18 February 2002 09:24, TP wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on an servlet based application that was designed by someone
> else. What we do is that we send xml data over to the browser and we rely
> on the browsers xsl processor (msxml) to parse the xml into viewable html.
> what this has done is that we are now very much browser dependant, such
> that our application cannot be viewed on any other browser other than IE.
>
> What we want to do is, of course, avoid this. What I was told is that if I
> used my application server to parse my xml instead of the browser, this
> would make the process faster and browser independant. i.e., parse the xml
> on the server side rather than the client.
>
> I am a newbie on this and need some direction about where I should start
> studying about this. Can someone please guide me on this.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> TP.
>
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