Rob,

Do you think it's so powerful per se to put at a side languages like Java, VB, C++ or Cobol for Data Management, when most of the current data architectures are RDB or VSAM? 

Don't you think it should be better considered as a next step processing for presentation purposes?  

Claudio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:me@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Jueves, 03 de Julio de 2003 01:00 p.m.
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XSLT Architecture: Next Step


> Now, from the msgs I see on the list I see that people pretend to use
> XSLT for whatever they figure out (maybe also for cooking). 

About 10% of the projects I have used xslt in have been for
presentation. XSLT, to me, has nothing to do with presentation per se. I
use it to take XML and change its form to whatever is needed.

I think there are 2 rather distinct forms of XML - data centric and
document centric - and XSLT can transform both kinds.

I think you would be doing yourself a disservice to think that XSLT is
somehow tied at the hip with presentation. It may have started that way,
but I am not sure that is the future of the language.

Cheers,
Rob

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