Re: New possibilites with client XSLT transformation

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:16:59 -0800, Paul Querna <chip@force-elite.com> wrote:
> Alexander Shopov wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have been hacking a bit on the xslt transformations of Subversion and
> > I would like to share some results. The work is not finished yet but I
> > hope that someone finds something useful in them. Bits to reuse,
> > templates, whatever.
> >
>
> Hmm. It would be sweet if you had the *option* to use Server-Side
> Transformation...
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1909
>
> Then you could use mod_transform:
> http://www.outoforder.cc/projects/apache/mod_transform/

Actually, with a bit of hacking, you can do this with mod_rewrite to fix
up the behaviors. However, I really like client side transforms as the
amount of data that needs to be sent to the client is so much less. The
XSLT can even be cached client side but even without that, the
HTML markup that looks nice and provides all of the links, etc, will
be significantly larger than the XML that is sent in the XSLT case.

Once I get to the point in the Insurrection tools where I want to
expand the browser support I can then add mod_rewrite rules to
detect browsers that do not support XSLT and do the work server
side. (But I really do want client-side XSLT as it really scales
so much better)

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