web page build on XML/XSL

[wassil]

i am newbie and i want create my own web build on XMLand XSL
technology.
i would like to know if exist some SW where is possible easy create a
web page (something like Wysiwyg XML/XSL editor) without to have deep
knowledge about these two technology -XML/XSL?

 

[Peter Flynn]

i am newbie and i want create my own web build on XMLand XSL
technology.
i would like to know if exist some SW where is possible easy create a
web page (something like Wysiwyg XML/XSL editor) without to have deep
knowledge about these two technology -XML/XSL?

Not really at the moment. There are higher-end website design programs
like Dreamweaver which use XML internally (but not XSLT, yet?) but they
still produce HTML pages because there are still many millions of users
out there whose browsers won't do XML. And there are the big corporate
web content-control systems which are all XML (and maybe XSLT too), but
I assume these are beyond the reach of your wallet

Currently you need to server HTML -- still -- while there are so many
old browsers out there, unless you don't mind serving only to people
whose browsers can do XML and XSLT.

See the FAQ for more details, especially the article on software
(http://xml.silmaril.ie/developers/software/) and the XML test page
(which uses just XML and CSS) at http://xml.silmaril.ie/test.xml.
There is a working example page which uses XML and XSLT at
http://www.silmaril.ie/hotels.xml

///Peter

 

[Malte]

i am newbie and i want create my own web build on XMLand XSL
technology.
i would like to know if exist some SW where is possible easy create a
web page (something like Wysiwyg XML/XSL editor) without to have deep
knowledge about these two technology -XML/XSL?

Our projects developed a small framework to handle the content (actually
CLOB data from Oracle) in the form of XML then the parsing by way of
XSL. Once you get the hang of it it is really a matter of understand XSL
(I assume that understanding XML is a given).

I am not aware that there are tools out there that would automate this
work. Obviously, there are tools that will make it somewhat easier for
you to write your XSL. We use OxygenXML.

 

[Andy Dingley]

i am newbie and i want create my own web build on XMLand XSL
technology.

I'd have to ask _why_ you want to do this? What "new thing" are you
expecting to get from using XSL ?

You can't serve XML / XSL over the web (you could, but it's not a good
idea) -- all it can do for you is to be a better way to make HTML on
the server, then to serve that HTML. So you have to ask how you're
making this "back end" XML, then which part of the process it can help
you to simplify. There are many good reasons to do this, but we'd have
to know more about your particular idea to suggest more.

i would like to know if exist some SW where is possible easy create a
web page (something like Wysiwyg XML/XSL editor) without to have deep
knowledge about these two technology -XML/XSL?

You don't need to know all that much XML / XSL to to use them. A lot of
database -> XML -> XSL -> HTML sites can be built by first hand-coding
one "results" page in HTML, then converting this into an XSLT
stylesheet. The XSLT you need to know for this is pretty simple and
standard across all uses - a good textbook (try Michael Kay's) will
help.

One of the most convenient XSL tools I've found was XMLSpy, but the
version I used was too expensive and buggy to recommend it.