I'm a bit confused, ok.. we've got XML, XSQL, XSLT.. so bascially we use XSQL to generate XML from the Oracle and XSLT is used to translate XML into HTML?? but what role does the style sheet play? Could anyone help me here please?
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You are correct, XSQL will output XML based on your query to the database. Once this information is in XML format it is basically worthless to the browser/user unless you define some transformation using XSLT. This transformation can convert XML into almost any data format, for presentation reasons HTML is most common.
XSLT is a style sheet but it is entirely different then CSS so dont think of them as the same. I think your confusion here is the fact that XSLT is called a style sheet but in fact completly diffrent the an HTML style sheet.
You are correct, XSQL will output XML based on your query to the database. Once this information is in XML format it is basically worthless to the browser/user unless you define some transformation using XSLT. This transformation can convert XML into almost any data format, for presentation reasons HTML is most common.
XSLT is a style sheet but it is entirely different then CSS so dont think of them as the same. I think your confusion here is the fact that XSLT is called a style sheet but in fact completly diffrent the an HTML style sheet.
Posted by: Darrin Swenson | October 14, 2005 at 02:25 PM