On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 08:56 am, Jörg Walter wrote:
This is one possibility I have thought about, but it feels a lot like ye
olde sandwich templates would be resurrected for the last step. Feel free to
(verbally) prove me wrong, however.
Yeah, it would be a sandwich template. (would have to be if your using dom/xslt for your middle bit). But it would be pipeline configurable, so you could do different ones for different pages, and it could call the pipeline multiple times if you wanted to use xslt in a less chunky way.
Apache2 should also handle it nicely.
One idea I had was to use a pure SAX pipeline. Online discussions have
resulted in the idea to provide a get_sax method in addition to get_dom and
get_strref. get_sax would be a little bit different, as it wouldn't really
"get" anything, but pass the own SAX hander to theupstream SAX handler, so
that both modules can connect as a plain old SAX pipeline. That pipeline is
easily capable of send-ahead, since it processes one element at a time. If
we get a decent language module which exploits this behaviour (in contrast
to "collect all events, build a DOM, ..."), that would be a feasible way to
do it. I don't recall it off the top of my head, but aren't there SAX
transformation modules that are used much like a stripped-down XSLT?
That's also possible. :)
Mike.
