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Creating reusable visual components: a consistent look and feel throughout your application.

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1351 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Creating reusable visual components: a consistent look and feel throughout your application.(XML Labs)

Article Excerpt
Creating Web pages with HTML can be time consuming, so it's critical to create generic visual components that can easily be reused. This will give you a consistent look and feel throughout your application. You'll be able to add new functionality at one location and make it available across multiple Web pages, which can save you a lot of time.

Creating Reusable Visual Components

In order to create reusable visual components, it's important to create genetic stylesheets and JavaScript routines. The stylesheets can be used to display tabular data in a grid format, or menus to navigate your Web application (e.g., WebGrid.xsl, WebMenu.xsl). Even though these examples will show you how to build reusable tabular pages and menus, the same ideas can be used to generate any common type of Web page.

The reusable stylesheet to display tabular (grid) data, WebGrid.xsl, should:

1. Read instructions on how to build the view, defined between tags

2. Read the XML data, defined between tags, and transform it to HTML using XSL

The instructions on how to build the view are represented as XML. These build instructions, along with the XML data, are...

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