Re: what to use instead of Axkit?

Thanks, Tod.
Thanks, Yanick.




On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:01 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:53:58AM -0500, Tod Harter wrote:
>> Over the years I've just ginned up a somewhat ad-hoc framework  
>> using XSLT
>> and callbacks mostly. It works pretty well for me and the code isn't
>> astronomically complex. If you like XSLT the approach works  
>> reasonably well.
>> There are any number of more complex perl webapp frameworks out  
>> there that
>> support a wide variety of templating, like HTML::Mason. Most of  
>> them seem to
>> be primarily built around Text::Template and its friends, but I am  
>> pretty
>> sure you can set them up to let you generate stuff with XSLT, Sax,  
>> or no
>> doubt XPS too!
>
> 	That's my cue, right? :-)
> 	
> 	Yup, XPS is basically made up of two part: the transformation  
> stylesheet
> (which has been historically called the template because of its  
> origin as a parallel
> to the xslt 'apply-template' element) and a simple template system  
> (which is
> called the stylesheet because, well, 'template' was already taken
> by the stylesheet). [1]
>
> 	One of the things the latter versions of XPS did was to loosen the  
> coupling
> of those two components so that one could be used without the other.
> The module's documentation provides examples of how XPS can be  
> embedded
> in Mason and Embperl. [2]
>
>
> 	To go back to the original question, another potential
> substiture for AxKit is Catalyst.  It's maybe bulky, but it has all  
> the
> features that should make the implementation of any AxKit  
> transformation
> chain fairly easy.
>
> Joy,
> `/anick
>
> [1] Yes, fixing all that nomenclature train wreck is one of the  
> goals of XPS2.  :-)
>
> [2] http://search.cpan.org/~yanick/XML-XPathScript/lib/XML/XPathScript/Processor.pm#Embedding_XML 
> ::XPathScript::Processor_in_a_Templating_System
>
> -- 

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