Benefits/Disadvantages of using XSL to render entire web pages

Question

I am in the preliminary stages of planning a project with a client to redo their current website. I took a look at their current site to see what issues they are currently deali

Answer 1

Sounds like the All-singing-all-dancing XML fetish.

Since you can do anything with XSLT, might as well do everything. I've had people ask why a data warehouse isn't just XSLT transforms between input, data mart and reports.

Advantage. Everything's in XML.

Disadvantages.

• Not very readable. Your page templates are bound up as XSLT transformations with confusing looping and conditional processing features.

• Any change to page templates requires an XSLT expert, in addition to the graphic designer who created (and debugged) the HTML and CSS.