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XSL vs. Parsing/Filling and Reading from an Object
- From: "Katie McNally" <kmcnally9 at hotmail dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:41:56 -0600
- Subject: [xsl] XSL vs. Parsing/Filling and Reading from an Object
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We are trying to decide which approach to use to create new pages for the
site we are building. The current approach for the existing pages involves
a servlet calling a session bean, which sends an XML request to a 3rd party
vendor, which returns XML. The session bean parses the xml into a hashtable
and then passes the hashtable back to the servlet. The servlet puts the
data from the hashtable into an object, and the object is placed in the
session. The jsp then retrieves the object from the session to build the
page presented to the user.
We are considering an XSL approach (using the Xalan processor) to transform
the XML returned by the 3rd party vendor. The things we are considering for
our decision are performance, time-to-build and complexity of page
maintenance/creation of future pages (the current pages are read-only, but
future pages may be transactional/editable). The pages currently being
designed will involve the retrieval of XML about 35 KB in size (although
future pages may require the retrieval of XML greater in size). The logic
necessary to create the read-only pages is medium in complexity, but future
pages may require greater complexity.
If you have any suggestions/input on either approach, I would appreciate it.
Let me know if I need to provide additional information.
Thanks, Katie
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