WebProWorld
Please note – Data Islands are exclusive to Internet Explorer!
This month we start a two part series on Data Islands. Part 1 explores how we can use Data Islands to embed XML and XSLT into a browser, and manipulate that data using DHTML. Part 2 will illustrate Data Islands and Data Binding, and how to update data from the browser with Web Services and XMLHTTP.
One of the most frustrating things to me is seeing developers doing new things, but in “old” ways. A classic example is one you may have seen yourself: Here we have a sophisticated client – side application that runs in Internet Explorer, we use XML Data Islands and XSLT transforms and parameters, templates, and we even use XMLHTTP from the client. And along with this we may have page upon page that needs to get a recordset from SQL Server – sometimes many recordsets, and bring them into the page as XML so we can do all our “new kind of cool stuff” with it. Well, that’s great.
