images/flowers.jpg A Beautiful Ninja Pirate Flower Image We Fight for your Flowers! Pirate Ninja Flower Shop

This is a Firefox specific project, although I would hope that it also would work in other browsers. With the exception of the form, I think I didn't particularly have to duplicate the code in my XSL file. The XML files themselves no longer have duplications, which is a lovely improvement from part one of this exercise. I think I am definitely improviing in how I can handle different XML data sources without having to repeat a lot of the data. I ended up resolving the file issues by merging the shipment files into one file and all the flowers into another file. This looks like a reasonable solution -- just dump all shipments and flowers into the respective files as updates come in. This still meant I had to get a link set up across files so that Flower names and descriptions from two different files were displayed together. This was a satisfying challenge. I also created xml files for each color to structure the navigation bar and page specific styling. I was only able to tailor the CSS using inline styles in the XML and I was not able tailor page-specific CSS. Not a huge deal, but lacking slightly in elegance. Despite my initial internal predictions of doom and gloom, I think that this project came together very nicely. I was particularly pleased that I was able to sort the flowers by Type, and then by Name and Description. The color filter is working nicely as well. I suppose that I could have sorted the flowers alphabetically by Name, but I think I need to stop fiddling. I would have liked to have inserted some text under flower Types that did not have any colored flowers, but I was having troubles getting it to only display once. And again, I need to stop fiddling. The Flower calculator ended up being a major pain! I think I muddled through to a fairly functional result, but I got oddly stuck in different points with odd formatting errors. Also, the browser differences with both Javascript and XSLT are somewhat daunting. I have had to deal with getting XHTML/CSS to display across browsers, but there is a definite troubleshooting advantage to keeping a fair amount of the action on the server.