Re: [TFUI] "if" in XSLT (Re: XML -> XSLT -> XHTML Nirvana)

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:52:44 -0500, Cory Foy <Cory.Foy-3E03uoa5e7nqlBn2x/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Phlip wrote:
> > This is closer to the /WebXP/ Prime Directive, and farther from my
> > solution, which has higher risk and more flexibility.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by more flexibility. We seem to differ mostly
> on that one point. To me, flexibility means being able to deploy new
> platforms with as little code modification as possible. To someone else
> it may mean being able to have graphic designers insert new images
> inline without having to immediately touch that nasty XSL file. What
> does it mean for you?

That is flexibility that "my system" prohibits. (Understand I'm not
pushing a "system" - just extra decoration in the XML payload when
convenient.)

"My system" is flexible when I can think of new XHTML and push it from
the Real Programming Language Layer into the XML. I don't need to edit
the XSLT, use 'if' statements to figure out which of a generic set of
data gets the decoration, use more 'if' statements to figure out what
the decoration is, etc.

-- 
Phlip


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