RE: [xopus] [RT] Do we really need XSLT?

Hi Ugo

As Lon is on our list and Christian and me are on Xopus list, my suggestion
is to continue this RT thread on both lists.
I hope we can have a good and fair discussion.
Best
Roger


>Where RT is for "Random Thoughts" ;-)
>
>I was wondering today why does Xopus require an XSLT transformation to
>transform the XML source to HTML. Given that Xopus is targetting
>browsers that directly support the display of XML styled with CSS
>(Mozilla and IE 5+), do we really need HTML? If we avoided XSLT, maybe
>we'd get some benefits:
>
>- we'd work around bugs and limitations in the browsers' XSLT processors
>(there seem to be quite a few in Mozilla that are causing troubles to
>Xopus developers).
>
>- editing would be more consistent, not having to guess which XML
>element is going to be modified when the caret is on a HTML element.
>
>- applications could be developed faster: developers would not have to
>learn XSLT.
>
>- maybe performance would be better.
>
>Of course, there's the problem that Xopus' aim is to make it easy to
>edit *HTML* pages, so the editable elements are usually embedded in HTML
>and not in XML pages, but I think IE has support for "XML islands", so
>maybe they might be useful. Don't know about Mozilla, though. We could
>post an RFE to Bugzilla if we needed this feature.
>
>Having said that, let me say that I really like and dig XSLT, but maybe
>in this case it is causing us more problems than it solves.
>
>	Now fire at will,
>
>		Ugo
>
>--
>Ugo Cei - http://www.beblogging.com/blog/
>
>

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