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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Martynas Jusevicius <ma...@gmail.com> on 2005/05/20 15:38:11 UTC
XSLT-based framework?
Hi,
after getting somewhat familiar with Cocoon, I noticed features like
selectors and JXPath, which resemble XSLT a lot. In fact this
inspiration is even stated in Cocoon documentation.
Then I got an I idea -- would it be possible to build completely XSLT
based framework? I do not mean it that much overblown as Cocoon.
Webapps are based on getting HTTP requests and sending responses. We
could call that a transformation (request to response), and this is
exactly what XSLT deals with. It would take only a tiny layer to
convert a request into XML, and send out the result -- everything in
between could be handled with XSLT (e. g. importing higher-level
stylesheets to do normal XML to XHTML or whatever transformation).
Kind of XSLT-only sitemap.
That should not mean it would be "action-less" -- it could be used
with REST APIs that are based on HTTP methods, and make manipulations
that way (e. g. on some native XML database).
Anyone had similar thoughts?
Martynas Jusevicius
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Re: XSLT-based framework?
Posted by Luca Morandini <lu...@tin.it>.
Martynas Jusevicius wrote:
> Then I got an I idea -- would it be possible to build completely XSLT
> based framework? I do not mean it that much overblown as Cocoon.
> Webapps are based on getting HTTP requests and sending responses. We
> could call that a transformation (request to response), and this is
> exactly what XSLT deals with. It would take only a tiny layer to
> convert a request into XML, and send out the result -- everything in
> between could be handled with XSLT (e. g. importing higher-level
> stylesheets to do normal XML to XHTML or whatever transformation).
> Kind of XSLT-only sitemap.
Something along the lines of XML pipelines and XPL (see [1] and [2] for
details) ?
Regards,
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xml-pipeline-20020228/
[2] http://www.w3.org/Submission/xpl/
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Luca Morandini
www.lucamorandini.it
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