XML Benefits

If you're using XHTML, you *are* using XML. There are a number of good
reasons to use XML and XSLT transformations, in any case. For example, by
performing XSLT transformations on the client, you can save yourself a round
trip to the server for some common operations, such as providing the ability
to sort a table in different ways. You can also take advantage of XML via
Web services, or by simply making background requests to a server to avoid
redrawing the entire page. For example, if you're paging through a large
data set, you can retrieve just the data from the server and then transform
and display it on the client rather than redrawing the entire page to show
the next/previous set of records. This second idea is similar to using
frames, but has none of the disadvantages of frames.

"Dwayne Forehand" <forehand.d@portseattle.org> wrote in message
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> I have recently began studying XML and am facinated with XML translations.
> I develop MVA intranet applications and don't have any need to translate
> to anything other than XHTML. Is there some other hidden reason that I
would
> still want to use XML for the view portion of my applications?