[development] XML transformations using XSL

Adrian Rossouw adrian at bryght.com
Thu May 25 09:11:36 UTC 2006


On 25 May 2006, at 3:20 AM, James Walker wrote:

>
> My experience with XSL is ... it's a nice idea, *but*... is your  
> playlist data already in an XML format? or is it not coming from a  
> database result set? If already in XML, then it might make sense to  
> transform rather than parse & regenerate... otherwise probably not  
> worth it.
Yup. Using XSLT adds a hell of a lot more 'moving parts' than is  
strictly necessary,
and in general working with a database is far far simpler, and more  
easily maintainable by
a larger group of people.


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