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For one, in many cases the XML + XSLT is more compact than the rendered output, so there are hosting and bandwidth benefits, especially if you're transforming a lot of XML files with the same XSLT.


That’s fascinating because I wouldn’t have expected it. What’s an example of when they rendered output would be bigger?


Imagine 1000 numbers in XML and a XSLT with xsl:for-each which renders a div with a label, textbox with the number and maybe a button. That's a simple example. Output would be a lot longer than XML+XSLT.


Ah, gotcha. Thanks for that. Ok, I could see why that’d be smaller, although I wonder now much compression could equalize it.




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