Re: [flasher] AW: FLASH: XML handling in Flash 5

[flasher]

The true potential of XML and XSLT is the manipulation

of structured data on the client side. Unfortunately

Flash does not seem to incorporate any powerful, or

even not so powerful, XML transformation or extraction

tools. When Flash XML capability incorporates the use

of a DTD (instead of just tag structure) and XSLT

capabilities (including the logic needed to extract

nodes based on criteria) then Flash will be a powerful

data manipulation tool. Add to it the ability to write

XML documents to a local drive from the stand alone

player and Flash becomes a powerful cross platform

media and data application development tool.


Then Flash will live up to the hype.


Are you listening Macromedia? I'm not the only one

requesting this, and I will be a powerful evangelist

for your products when this happens.


Cheers,

John Andrew Morrison



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From: "Thomas Bilz" <bilzgmx [dot] de>

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Reply-To: "flasher" <flasherlists [dot] chinwag [dot] com>

> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 01:20:12 +0100

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To: flasher from chinwag <flasherlists [dot] chinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: [flasher] AW: FLASH: XML handling in Flash 5

> 

> I'm not sure about this. A normal scenario could be to develop a

> HTML-Interface and a Flash-Interface for dynamic data at the same time. So

> first of all you will generate xml and then transform it to html, but why

> should you take another unncessary encoding on the server. I love the great

> possibilites of XSLT, but the server-load is enormous.

> 

> /thomas bilz