Re: Would you take a complimentary course on HTML from a company whose website looked like this?

Den 31/03/10 15.25, Aaron Bartell skrev:

The combination of XML data and XSLT transformation(s) into XHTML is very

powerful.

Powerful as in flexible, yes, but it comes at a cost. That XML had to first
be serialized on the server, deserialized on the client, then the response
would need to be serialized on the client and deserialized on the server.
There are a good number of CPU cycles used in the name of open spec
technologies.

Not necessarily. The transformations can easily be done on the server (I usually run in a servlet container) and the XSLT's can be compiled so the transformation is pretty cheap.

I have a long time ago resigned to only ship finished HTML (in whatever form) to the client, and only use Javascript through libraries.

If you own both ends of the spectrum (i.e. the server language the the
client Javascript) then why not come up with a solution that is more
efficient? Note that I am just introducing this argument into the
conversation and am currently somewhat of an offender of using popular data
transmission mechanisms simply because they were quick to implement (i.e.
ExtJS + JSON + RPGUI).

Then you need to first define what "Efficient" means, and how to measure it.