Re: [xsl] Practicality of Separating Data from Presentation

["Robert S. Koberg" <rob at koberg dot com>]

Hi, more of a question...

intelikon@email.com wrote:

> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> - XSLT is good for some things, some rather easy things become very
> hard to
> do in XSLT... XSLT is a very good partner to existing languages. In
> addition, u can use XSLT as a preprocessor, auto generating ASP for
> example.
> This is where XSLT is a star in auto generating code for you.
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> My next question, James, would be, what is the best way (in your opinion) for auto-generating ASP?  Do you have any examples of ASP code being generated through an XSLT file?  Does it involve 'overloading' the XSLT file with ASP code - i.e. writing some ASP code within the XSLT file?  I have seen some code like the following:
>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;</xsl:text>%= Now %<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&gt;</xsl:text>
>
> as a way to create ASP code.  What would be some pro's and con's to this approach - assuming there are both?
Is there a way to write well-formed ASP?  You can with JSP. If so, you 
won't need to write all the escapes (and people won't throw rocks when 
you ask questions :).

best,
-Rob



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