Hi,
Unfortunately none of the workarounds suggested so far have quite the
goodness Michele needs, in a pedagogical context, where she would like her
students to be washed in a wave of startled satisfaction at the end of
their course, on seeing their hard-edged, pointy-bracketed code magically
dressed for the ball by their favorite computer application, namely their
well-worn web browser, no extension, no fussy download.
Without that file system view this might still be possible, but not as easy.
However, I am also not sure we are not already past that point. Michele, is
this for a web-literate audience (who knows about HTML, CSS and servers),
or are they really neophytes to markup-based information processing?
A couple of my demos at https://wendellpiez.github.io/XMLjellysandwich/
offer hints of what is possible today, but there is much more to be done in
this area. I believe magic is still possible even without the
xml-stylesheet PI over the file system. But it'll be somewhat different.
Regards, Wendell
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:32 PM Dean Fiala dfiala(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Check out Lightsail on AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/free/compute/lightsail/
Quick and cheap path to getting a simple web server set up -- leaving the
fun part of creating a web app that takes a stylesheet and xml file and
does the transformation. For that you can use your choice of Ruby on Rails,
Python, java, etc. -- I bet with a little google foo you can probably even
find a working example to get you started.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:21 PM Michele R Combs mrrothen(_at_)syr(_dot_)edu <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
That would be great, but unfortunately it's far beyond my capabilities --
I wouldn't even know where to start to set up something like that :( But
maybe I can teach myself between now and next time we teach the class!
Michele
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I suppose I could give them Saxon and a pre-written batch file so all
they have to do is double-click; saxon is pretty self-contained.
One way forward for this sort of thing is to pull the infrastructure onto
your end. Setup a web form where they can upload the file (or the
stylesheet, or both, I’m not sure which bit the students are working on),
transform it form them, and send back the results.
For a few students with small files, it’s not an objectively large task
to setup a server that can do small transformations, but of course it
depends a little bit on what infrastructure you have available.
I’ve seen some very successful tutorials that were entirely “cloud based”
like this. It doesn’t work for everything, but it does work for some things
and it might possibly work for you here.
Good luck!
Be seeing you,
norm
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