Re: [xsl] How to throw transformation to browser

[Antonio Fiol <fiol at w3ping dot com>]

Scott Purcell wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a good xml file and a good xslt file. Up until today, we have included a stylesheet reference in the xml to the xsl file and let the browser combine them for display. (Works only in IE).
>
> I have been told to investigate combinining the two files (xml and xsl) server side. I investigated some avenues and came up with Cocoon, and Xalan. Are these the best ways to do this? Which is easiest to implement.
>  
They are two different approaches to the problem.

Cocoon is a complete publishing system.
Xalan is a XSLT processor.

With Xalan, you will probably need to code a servlet to do the 
transformation. Cocoon already works as a servlet.

If you do not want to be able to detect the IE6 and Mozilla (the 
browsers that support XML+XSL), you can simply do the transformation 
server side, and store the result in HTML. You would not need a servlet 
for that.


Antonio Fiol


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