Summary
In this chapter you have implemented already familiar AJAX techniques to build a data grid. You have met XSL, which allows implementing very powerful architectures where the server side of your application doesn’t need to deal with presentation.
Having XSL deal with formatting the data to be displayed to your visitors is the professional way to deal with these kinds of tasks, and if you are serious about web development, it is recommended to learn XSL well. Beware; this will be time and energy consuming, but in the end the effort will be well worth it.