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Hello
I need someone to answer this question cuz I am confused.
Can you use XSLT with DHTML or only with XHTML and HTML.

I was reading Javascript and they were recommending DHTML rather than HTML because of browser-independence.

However, right now I am reading about XSLT and it doesn't mention DHTML.

Do people really use DHTML today or it is too early?
Can I use DHTML, XHTML and HTML all on one web site?

Hello,

When you render HTML to the browser in the XSL stylesheet, you can make references to DLL's, such as through the style attribute in an HTML tag. This is DHTML functionality, and you can use it that way.

Brian

Don't understand. Please can you explain more in detail?

DHTML is too late.. I consider it old technology... XSL/XSLT are current... XHTML is HTML that complies with the XML standards.

DHTML can work really with any of them- DHTML is using the DOM in the browser- letting you manipulate that client side stuff. Like changing an image on a mouseover.. or re-formating text... So, if you have an HTML or XHTML page, you can use "DHTML" which is, basically, javascript to manipulate it. Those NAME="" and ID="" tags in your HTML are the "DHTML" specification (as well as the DOM).. of course, NS and IE and Opera and.... all impletement it differently...

which is why DHTML came and went without really gaining traction.

Further: XSLT transforms XML compliant documets.. So it wouldn't work with HTML- only XHTML or XML documents. It's unlikly to work with DHTML.. Of course you could use an XSLT to create and XHTML document from XML and use the DOM on the XHTML page to do DHTML...

DHTML is NOT browser independent... NOTHING is browser independent.



Hal Levy
Web Developer, PDI Inc.

NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee

Hello,

I said DLL's in my previous post, but I really meant DHTML script. You can do some pretty neat things with it, although as Hal said it's implemented differently across browsers.

If you are using XML in ASP or server-based applications, you can use XML and XSL to render HTML as the results. In the XSL file, you can make references to DHTML through attributes. Example stylesheet:

<xslt:Template match="MyTag">
   <tr>
      <td><a style="color:red;font-weight:bold;text-transform:none;">
           <xslt:attribute name="href"><xslt:value-of select="HREF"/></xslt:attribute>
           <xslt:value-of select="LinkText"/>
          </a>
      </td>
   </tr>
</xslt:Template>

The attributes defined in style="color:red;font-weight:bold;text-transform:none;" this is DHTML. In this extent, you can use it widely.

Brian