Ajax: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Chapter 11. Ajax Using XSLT "But wait, there's more ." I do so feel like someone hawking my wares on a late-night infomercial, but hey, it's true. There is actually more to Ajax than what we've already covered. In fact, we're a...

11.1. XSLT Transformations are an idea as old as human thought. Primitive societies had werewolves, werebears, and weretigers. The Greeks had warnings against seeing goddesses bathe, unless one was interested in going to parties stag, literally. D...

11.2. Tabular Information The previous chapter introduced several JavaScript class constructors in an effort to keep the client-side code manageable. Now is a good time to introduce another, a wrapper around the XSLT processor to handle the browse...

11.3. Advantages and Disadvantages A number of advantages exist for designing a site that uses client-side XSLT. The first is that it really looks good on the old resuméstrike that. The first is that it becomes possible to design more dyn...

11.4. Summary In this chapter, I covered why the idea of performing transformations on the client side is scary, mostly because of the actions of Microsoft. Additionally, I covered the reason why using XSLT on the client side now makes sense, with...