Advices and warnings
A few advices, warnings and observations that may simplify your work with WXT
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Addresscalculations are an expensive job in WXT. If you are not depending on addresscalculations, it is a good idea to turn off the addressing mechanisme in the script:
<addressing tagname="_none" attribute="_none"/>
See Addressing for detals of this element. - MSIE does not seem to like XML-extensions on XHTML-pages when the media-type is set to text/xml. The solution seems to be: Allways use mediatype text/html when we make pages which are strict XHTML or transitional. (and we dont make other HTML-variants, do we ?)
- It is expensive to initiate new instances of WXT from a script. It may tempting and practical, but it costs more processing time than to expand the script with another group. An alternative is to use bootstrapping, see Bootstrap.
- It has turned out very efficient to combine all the possibilities of ANT (http://ant.apache.org/) with WXT. ANT may help you copy files and catalogs, producing zip-archives etc. You may call ANT from a WXT-script and you may start WXT from ANT.