Testimonials?
First entry, We have a website where thinking very fowardly we abstracted away from html using an xml web element descriptor DTD that we formulated, loosely based on mozilla's XUL. Yesterday i got the dreaded request from management to provide the printer-friendly version of each page with a simple click.
I knew this was coming even even though it wasn't brough up earilier, and is part of why we like the multi-output format options xslt provided.
Due to our planning ahead, i was able to come up with a site wide solution that is xslt based of course. A simple tag of <print-region> now wraps anything we'd like to have in the resulting print friendly document. a 5 line change to our xslt and voila, the stripping of all navigation leaving only the "meat" of the content, or whatever we put in print-regions.
sweet!
Granted similiar techniques using a print-oriented CSS would also have worked, but i find the xslt approach much cleaner.
I'll post a linky as soon as the feature is out of dev.
Ryan
First entry, We have a website where thinking very fowardly we abstracted away from html using an xml web element descriptor DTD that we formulated, loosely based on mozilla's XUL. Yesterday i got the dreaded request from management to provide the printer-friendly version of each page with a simple click.
I knew this was coming even even though it wasn't brough up earilier, and is part of why we like the multi-output format options xslt provided.
Due to our planning ahead, i was able to come up with a site wide solution that is xslt based of course. A simple tag of <print-region> now wraps anything we'd like to have in the resulting print friendly document. a 5 line change to our xslt and voila, the stripping of all navigation leaving only the "meat" of the content, or whatever we put in print-regions.
sweet!
Granted similiar techniques using a print-oriented CSS would also have worked, but i find the xslt approach much cleaner.
I'll post a linky as soon as the feature is out of dev.
Ryan
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