@Kyanar said:
@asuffield said:@PSWorx said:Take a look at the source of this. You can actually use it to make websites already.
I can think of dozens of assorted things out there that you can actually use to make websites already, and just like this one, they are all used by approximately zero people. There is a reason for this.
Unless you count such organisations as Blizzard Entertainment as zero people (reference: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml - note the XML extension on their homepage). In a true stroke of genius, their newfangled armoury thingy is even MORE bloated XML with XSL. Not even a spec of HTML. So yeah, some people DO use it.
I'm actually quite intrigued by that example of an XML page with XSLT. Unless I'm missing something on my end by looking at the source, it's almost a perfect XHTML page, including links for the CSS stylesheets and such. The only difference is that it has a <page> tag instead of <html><body>, in which case I suppose the XSL stylesheet transforms <page> into <html><body>. Am I understanding this correctly? (I haven't done any XSLT yet)
If I'm right, then their use of XSLT is minimal and trivial, and really is just taking an XHTML page and giving it a different extension, yes? And if so, then what is the point? And despite showing that somebody is using XSLT, does this really help to show how it can be done well / used effectively, or why it should exist at all?
By the way, this is neither trolling nor sarcastic -- I seriously wonder what the importance of many of these new "web technologies" is, being that I've built several websites lately (freelance and for a few local businesses) and can't imagine how any of these recent technologies (AJAX, SOAP/XML-RPC, XSLT) could help me or my clients.