DotNetNuke Browser Based Development.
XsltDb is a DotNetNuke module for programmers. It provides a rich browser-based programming environment with a set of tools that allow to query database, present data and handle basic user input. XsltDb is very useful when you creating a data bound application with many object lists, input forms and user communications.
When to use XsltDb?
- If you have some data in the database and don't know how to display it in browser in the way your customer want.
- If you don't know a ready to use module that can do exactly what you need.
- If you want to have flexibility to change things in future.
Primary XsltDb functions:
- Safe multiportal programming with data isolation. Portal admins access only portal data (both database and files), in super module mode you have unrestricted database and file access.
- Creating ASP.NET and Telerik controls.
- Formatting complex data. XSL/XPath is very powerful tool.
- Processing hierarchies. Recursive processing is natural in XSL
- AJAX. Providing a javasctript adn URL-based interfaces to server objects and procedures.
Coding environment features:
- Syntax highlighting
- Code completion
- Full screen mode
- Search & replace (including regular expressions)
Use XsltDb if you are going to create a very special, non-standard application, anfractuous and higly customized.