On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Oleg Tkachenko wrote:
Guy McArthur wrote:
It would be nifty to use xsl to create a stream of content as xml
(and a second layer for presentation). What I don't know is if there
are any good, simple solutions out there to make this easy. The
content xsl would use xpath to access the $session, $cookies, >> $request
parameters, http $headers and so on. It would use xpath instead of
sql to
fetch data from a data store $connection. A servlet controller would
probably be the layer under that to make the magic happen. Out would
come
a stream of xml content to be passed onto presentation formatting
stylesheets. Hopefully, all these layers could be compiled into one
for efficiency.
Is it possible? Good, bad, or ugly?
Take a look at Apache Cocoon http://xml.apache.org/cocoon.
Or if you like perl, check out AxKit that is also an Apache project :-)
simon
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