Well, a lot depends on your detailed requirements and on where you are
starting from (in both technology and skills), but my preferred target
architecture would probably be: use XSLT server-side to generate HTML, CSS
to render the HTML, and XForms to handle the user interaction. Using XSLT
client-side is viable, but I don't see many benefits over using it
server-side.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Belics [mailto:rob_belics@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 January 2010 14:31
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Modern web site design with XML and XSLT
> 
> You can't find a book with that title. Some naive questions. 
> I'd like to take an ecommerce online application I've written 
> and convert all its drop-down, CSS, blinking lights, Ajaxy 
> goodness to all XML/XSLT all the time but, as I have just 
> started tinkering with this, I run into articles about how 
> browsers of today don't support XSLT or it won't work with 
> HTML5 and all those other things that make one question 
> whether the effort is worth it. I think XML is ideal and I 
> don't know why I couldn't convert everything over.
> 
> I need either encouragement or discouragement that my 
> (unknown to you) web site that uses bleeding edge modern web 
> development techniques (CSS3, HTML5, Ajax/Javascript/DOM, 
> etc., works in all browsers) can be completely recreated 
> without worry of gotchas halfway through the process. That 
> something won't ever be supported so I'm stuck and all that.