Leo : Examples Flextable

Since the Flextable component is distributed in an XSLT stylesheet, the process of actually displaying the component to the viewer goes like this:

1. Server (e.g. JSP page) makes XML
2. Server applies the client.xsl stylesheet to the XML.
3. The result is DHTML (HTML + a Javascript array of data + Javascript for the component) that is sent back to the browser.
4. The browser executes the Javascript of which the component consists.

The actual component is a Javascript object.

Any developer wishing to extend or modify the component is going to need information about the XML format that the stylesheet explains. It is also going to be difficult for a Javascript developer to work directly from the stylesheet, since that contains a mixture of XSLT and Javascript, rather than the final Javascript output.

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