Any reason not to use client-side XSL?? (was: Preferred tool for folding XML into HTML)

Russell Turpin russell_turpin at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 8 12:34:50 EST 2002


It seems clear that XSL is the way to go. I have heard that 
Internet Explorer supports client-side style sheets, i.e.,
your webapp returns the XML with reference to stylesheet, 
and IE will retreive the style sheet and apply it on the 
client side. I haven't read the details of this yet, but it
seems slick, and raises some other questions:

Wouldn't this be simpler than applying the translation on the
server side?

Is this standard? Do/will other browsers support this?

Are there disadvantages to applying the style sheet 
client-side?

My thanks to all, for the useful info!



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