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  • dawnerd
    #1

    Best place to transform XSL

    Hi, I have a question that a friend was asking me a few minutes ago.

    Is it better to transform XSL on the client side, or let the server
    handle it? Or both, ensuring that everyone can view the site correctly.

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    • Chung Leong
      #2
      Re: Best place to transform XSL

      dawnerd wrote:
      Hi, I have a question that a friend was asking me a few minutes ago.
      >
      Is it better to transform XSL on the client side, or let the server
      handle it? Or both, ensuring that everyone can view the site correctly.
      It better to not do XSL at all imho.

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        • dawnerd
          #3
          Re: Best place to transform XSL


          Chung Leong wrote:
          dawnerd wrote:
          Hi, I have a question that a friend was asking me a few minutes ago.

          Is it better to transform XSL on the client side, or let the server
          handle it? Or both, ensuring that everyone can view the site correctly.
          >
          It better to not do XSL at all imho.
          That's what I think as well. It's not really used by many sites
          anyways. But, my buddy just got Firefox (he's blind and got the new
          version of jaws with FF support) and wants to go crazy with creating
          new web stuff.

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            • Tony Marston
              #4
              Re: Best place to transform XSL

              It depends. You can only perform client-side transformations if the client
              browser supports it, and not all do. I have done client side transformations
              with IE and Firefox (Firefox is quicker) but Opera is still very flaky.

              The advantage of server-side transformations is that you don't need to care
              about the client's XSL abilities as you send it nothing but HTML, and every
              browser can handle HTML. The disadvantage is that each XSL transformation
              requires extra resources on the server. The advantage of client-side XSL is
              that this processing overhead is moved from the server to the client.

              If you wish to use XSL transformations then the best way is to offer the
              choice of either server-side or client-side processing. and let the client
              make the choice. That's what I do.

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              "dawnerd" <dawnerd@gmail. comwrote in message
              news:1156701126 .903934.299780@ i42g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .
              Hi, I have a question that a friend was asking me a few minutes ago.
              >
              Is it better to transform XSL on the client side, or let the server
              handle it? Or both, ensuring that everyone can view the site correctly.
              >

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                • Chung Leong
                  #5
                  Re: Best place to transform XSL

                  dawnerd wrote:
                  That's what I think as well. It's not really used by many sites
                  anyways. But, my buddy just got Firefox (he's blind and got the new
                  version of jaws with FF support) and wants to go crazy with creating
                  new web stuff.
                  And it's not used for a very good reason. In general you use rule-based
                  system to get open-ended results. This is rarely the case when it comes
                  to HTML pages, and especially so when you're generating the XML
                  yourself.

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