Much though I have to love json, this does seem to be a case where maintaining an xml stylesheet is the cleanest separation of form and content.
What about adding an xml processing instruction to the xml like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="<some base url>/dxf2html.xsl"?><document> ...</document> This will have no effect on consuming the xml normally (except for making it one line longer) but will allow a browser to render it nicely. Of course dxf2html.xsl would have to be maintained. It could be provided by an app. Or the whole url could be just a system setting. Then if the setting exists the processing instruction is emitted, if not then its not. Or there is a basic functionality which can be overridden by an app ... On 14 July 2014 05:19, Morten Olav Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course we could do that, but that would take away part of the > restfulness of the API. I don't think we should change the way our links > works, just because a plugin supports making http://* into real links. I > understand that it is a bit harder to browse the API right now, but that > should be fixed soon. We don't have to wait for 2.17 to be released for > this, it could easily live as an external app, it shouldn't take long to > develop something like that. > > -- > Morten > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Knut Staring <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So you can't just add .json to these links? >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> We do expose JSON as the default, if you send header "Accept: */*" that >>> would return a JSON result. Problem is that the browser is usually sending >>> something like "Accept: text/html, application/xml, ....." so since it has >>> no match for text/html, it will go to application/xml. >>> >>> We are hoping to provide an API browser app for 2.17. >>> >>> -- >>> Morten >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Knut Staring <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> A shortcut to making an app would be if we exposed .json by default >>>> instead of XML: >>>> >>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/resources.json has nicely clickable >>>> links if the user has something like JSONView installed: >>>> >>>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc >>>> >>>> Knut >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Lars Helge Øverland < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> yes its intentional. The HTML templates were static and too much >>>>> hassle to keep in synch with the model. >>>>> >>>>> App idea: make an app that renders a nice, linked HTML-view for all >>>>> resources based on the json resources. >>>>> >>>>> Lars >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Knut Staring <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Or is there just a missing style file: >>>>>> This XML file does not appear to have any style information >>>>>> associated with it >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Knut Staring <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> When I browse the API in 2.16, I seem to get XM >>>>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/resources >>>>>>> >>>>>>> instead of HTML, like it was in 2.15 >>>>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/resources >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is this intentional? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Knut Staring >>>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo >>>>>>> +4791880522 >>>>>>> http://dhis2.org >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Knut Staring >>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo >>>>>> +4791880522 >>>>>> http://dhis2.org >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Knut Staring >>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo >>>> +4791880522 >>>> http://dhis2.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Knut Staring >> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo >> +4791880522 >> http://dhis2.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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