At least in the ASP world Javascript is entirely usable on the server side.  ASP lets you use pretty much any language you can use with Windows Script Host.  Out of the box you get Javascript (or JScript as the case may be) and VBScript (which is the default language), but you can use others (Python and Perl come to mind immediately, but there are others).

I think I've seen some *nix tool or another that uses Javascript on the server side there as well.


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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wendell Piez
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At 12:22 AM 11/19/2003, Paul wrote:
>...The other way is to transform it
>dynamically.  The only way I know of is using PHP's Sablotron, which is
>the built-in XSLT transformation engine....

>....How do non-PHP people do it?  Someone mentioned
>JavaScript, which made my blood freeze in horror...

JavaScript would not be used on the server, would it? Rather, it falls on 
the client-side processing side of the line.

Server-side solutions besides PHP include Apache Cocoon, which is widely 
used and well-liked (open source, Java-based technology), or if you like 
Python, 4Suite, a similarly-targeted web application server with good XSLT 
support and a bunch of other goodies (also open source).

Check out xml.apache.org or 4Suite.org.

What did I forget?

Cheers,
Wendell


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