Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Utility of XSLT?

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Posted by Yon Derek on
I found XSLT to be more complex than, say, ADP. However, in the long term, I think I would still switch to XSLT since it's a one-time fee to master it and I believe in the advantages of the ability to independently develop multiple stylesheets as described by Bryan. And XSLT is a resume enhancer.

I've heard that dealing with relly large XSLT stylesheets can be really painful but then again I've heard that there are good tools that alleviate the problem (visual debuggers for XSLT). But then again the good ones will cost you.

Also it is quite possible that XSLT transformation can be more costly than ADPs, but:

  • it's pure speculation; TCL is not the fastest language
  • it can be alleviated with good caching
And finally, the more data will be available in XML out there, the more useful XSLT will become.