Topic: XML tech reduce server side scripting task?!

hi, guys. How are you?
Can I ask you something, please?

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Question: Is XML(XSLT and XPath) reduce server side scripting task?

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I have been studying XML for a month at tech. XML seperate Data and Structure. So I can show data island in my web site. It is great thing, isn't it? I am using XML file as my database file. Using XSLT and Xpath to convert XML into XHTML. Then show the data just like using server side scripting stuff.

Just now I finished tutorial on the web, which tell me how to sort data. Unfortunately IE5 doesn't support those beautiful things.

Now I am just wondering if browser supports XML well, then people can cut a lot of hard work of server side scripting to connect database, right?

What do you think of this?
Please give me your opinion!
Many thanks.

Oh, and this one as well!
A lot of site said:

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XSLT is much more powerful than CSS

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But I cannot get this meaning. XSLT is just transforming XML into XHTML, isn't it?
After that we have to creat CSS to link with! So I think they are quite different thing?!
Can you explain this for me?

Hiroki Kozai

[This message has been edited by Hiroki (edited 08-18-2003).]

Hiroki: Browser support for XML and related technologies still suck (although some suck less than others) and for the foreseeable future (and, given the proliferation of devices, pos. for ever) you should really process any XML server-side I'm afraid. That said learning about XSLT in the browser is a great way of getting to grips with things. You can then use something like Sablotron to apply them server-side.

There are ways of inserting XML into web pages (like RDDL) but these are really for machines to pick up for now.

I'm sorry it doesn't really apply to your question but that is my opinion on things.

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Hiroki Kozai

but anyhow, xml isn't really a replacement for a relational database.
A decent RDMS will be much faster than any XML-Processing ever will be,
even if you could in theory gain the same amount of flexibility with an xml file + a huge library.

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