XSLT for device-dependent user interfaces
Ben Francis <[email protected]>
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Hi, I'm completely new to XSLT and still getting a feel for exactly what it does. Would XSLT be useful in the following use case: A web application serves a user interface as a generic XML file which formally describes buttons, fields, menus, tables of data etc. but not how they should be presented. Two users both wish to use the web application but one is using a laptop computer and one is using a mobile phone with WAP or GPRS. XSLT is then used to generate two different user interfaces from the XML output of the web application, an XHTML representation and a WML representation of the same interface, each suited to its own platform. Where exactly is XSLT implemented? I see that there are implementations in server-side languages but I've also read that XSLT is built into some web browsers and Google has recently open-sourced a JavaScript implementation. Thanks for your help Ben "tola" Francis