Information interchange has become key to survival in an increasingly wired
world. It is in this context that industries have adopted XML as the enabling
mechanism to achieve application integration. XML is ideally suited for
designing a Web application that has multiple pages, some of which display
common business information.
If XML can be used to represent the application's business information, then
XSL can be used to transform the XML for each of these pages. While Web
designers can design the pages for the Web application, they can't be
expected to design XSLT stylesheets. Stylesheet designers, on the other hand,
are good at embedding transformation logic but are not conversant with
writing HTML code or presentation tricks. This makes it hard to write XSLT
stylesheets that transform the XML to HTML specific to each page. If Web
designers can add special "tags... (more)