I'm still a newbie to XML, so please bear with me. I'm working on a new conversion plan for our site. It currently uses ASP with JavaScript and some VBScript, and I'm working on converting it over to ASP.NET with XML/XSL.
My plan was to move all of our site's data into XML files, create separate stylesheets for several formats (i.e. HTML, PDF, WML, etc.), and use Cocoon to redirect the user to the page that uses their appropriate stylesheet for their browser.
But when it comes to display and manipulation of this data for users, I was thinking of using ASP.NET pages that would pull the data from XML files.
So my questions are:
ASP.NET vs. XML/XSL
1) Can't I just use XML/XSL to accomplish this?
2) Why should I even use ASP.NET when I could use XSL stylesheets to display XML data?
3) How do you manipulate XML data with XMLForms without using ASP.NET?
4) Is if better to use ASP.NET & XML/XSL together or just XML/XSL by itself?
XML & Browser Compatibility
1) Do all browsers support a setup using only XML/XSL?
2) Since all of the work is done on the server-side, does the client's browser even see anything?
Sorry for all of the questions, but I'd like to get started in whatever direction is better for us. Thanks for any help.
My plan was to move all of our site's data into XML files, create separate stylesheets for several formats (i.e. HTML, PDF, WML, etc.), and use Cocoon to redirect the user to the page that uses their appropriate stylesheet for their browser.
But when it comes to display and manipulation of this data for users, I was thinking of using ASP.NET pages that would pull the data from XML files.
So my questions are:
ASP.NET vs. XML/XSL
1) Can't I just use XML/XSL to accomplish this?
2) Why should I even use ASP.NET when I could use XSL stylesheets to display XML data?
3) How do you manipulate XML data with XMLForms without using ASP.NET?
4) Is if better to use ASP.NET & XML/XSL together or just XML/XSL by itself?
XML & Browser Compatibility
1) Do all browsers support a setup using only XML/XSL?
2) Since all of the work is done on the server-side, does the client's browser even see anything?
Sorry for all of the questions, but I'd like to get started in whatever direction is better for us. Thanks for any help.