Re: off topic: XML Request Transforms

I keep meaning to look at this, but just haven't had time/chance/etc.

Where did you end up going with this?
 

--- In [email protected], Nic <nferrier@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I know this is off topic... but what really is on topic here 
anymore?
> 
> I've got an idea that I've been working on and last time I looked
> there were still a lot of smart people subscribed here. I'm posting
> here so that they they might take a look at my idea and I can gauge
> whether it is, or is not, worthwhile pursuing.
> 
> 
> My idea is for a webapp description syntax called XML Request
> Transformations, or XRT (or xsltpages if you want to have a short
> explanatory name).
> 
> XRT is a way of using XSLT to describe the top level bit of your
> webapp. In effect it's a bit like a web.xml or an Apache config 
file.
> 
> But it's much more than that.
> 
> With XRT you can everything that you can do with mod-rewrite but 
much
> cleaner.
> 
> XRT can handle dispatch based on paths (like in a web.xml) or 
dispatch
> based on other things (like path AND method).
> 
> XRT lets you clearly show how a particular request maps to a
> particular resource representation.
> 
> XRT can dynamically load code extension functions written in python,
> this is a limitation of the code right now... I want to write a C
> version that can call code in any language.
> 
> Extension functions don't need to know anything about XML. They can
> return their data in JSON style (as Hashtables, Lists, etc...) and
> have XRT auto-convert it to XML.
> 
> 
> This is an extreemly agile way of building webapps. Unlike rails, it
> actually solves the bits of webapp building that I find frustrating.
> 
> You can build a demo webapp by starting with a bunch of XML files 
and
> then replacing them with extension functions as you add more dynamic
> functionality.
> 
> XRT also makes it possible to think about really big webapps built
> with large teams modelled along traditional lines:
> 
> - designers come up with XSLT transforms of XML to HTML/CSS
> - junior programmers write extension functions (remember, these is 
no
>   XML/Xpath specific stuff about XRT extensions)
> - senior programmers plug all this into XRT
> 
> 
> 
> I appreciate there is the issue of XSLT knowledge... but IDEs
> supporting XRT should be easy to build and XSLT knowledge is not as
> minimal as you'd think.
> 
> Anyway... here's the links:
> 
>   http://www.nongnu.org/xsltpages/
>   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xsltpages
>   http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/xsltpages/xsltpages-
0.02.tgz
> 
> 
> 
> Nic Ferrier
>







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