Somewhat unrelated, I hear a lot of people going gaga over XSLT for web
development. I understand the desire: a single document represents the
data of the page, while other documents are used to convert that data for
different clients / views with an emphasis on content seperation from
presentation logic.
But AFAIK, this is only 1/2 the battle. I still have business logic which
cannot be handled in the XSLT code. Add the amount of work just to get the
presentation away from the content in a standards-compliant fashion
(work in both a human and a computer terms) isn't worth it unless, say, I
was going to implement web, WAP and Palm OS views for the Library of
Congress or the Human Genome Project. But all that just for Acme Widgets,
who has, at the most, 2000 products.
Kinda like using the Space Shuttle to go grocery shopping.
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Paulo Gaspar wrote:
> Besides, I still found no great support for custom taglibs on
> DreamWeaver/UltraDev.
>
>
> OTOH, JSP + Custom Taglibs + Velocity/WebMacro can be a nice solution. I
> work with people that can use a couple of custom taglibs + SQL to get data
> from a database and then make a Vel./WM template work. They already do it
> with the XSQLServlet, and using XSLT as a template mechanism is much
> harder.
>
> Custom taglibs can be used to provide simple dialects that help getting
> productive people able to do simple scripting.
>
> There is a lot of this people. It is not only designers/full fledged
> programmers.
>
>
> Have fun,
> Paulo
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 21:58
> >
> >
> > > One can edit this stuff by hand if you want, but we're also
> > starting to see
> > > IDE
> > > tools that understand this stuff -- complete with popping up
> > dialong boxes to
> > > populate the appropriate attributes -- in the same way the IDE tools for
> > > building JavaBeans took much of the drudgery out of that process.
> >
> > Right, Dreamweaver's recent additions sound very cool and a much needed
> > advancement for helping with JSP, however, it isn't real feasible as a
> > requirement for working on OSS projects since it is commercial
> > (expensive!)
> > software. :-(
> >
>
>
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