Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-13 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thursday, Feb 13, 2003, at 01:32 Europe/London, S Woodside wrote: Whoa, I missed that. Does that mean that I can validate now in AxKit somehow using RNG? No, it requires support in XML::LibXML. That shouldn't be *too* hard, but I don't have time to do it. Not sure whether Christian has or

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-13 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 02:32, S Woodside wrote: Whoa, I missed that. Does that mean that I can validate now in AxKit somehow using RNG? its early days; the relaxng support is not finished or efficient, according to Daniel, but in the medium term, yes, it should be possible to validate using RNG

Re: validation (was: AxKit for web applications)

2003-02-13 Thread S Woodside
Fair enough; unless you're validating a document that's being managed as part of a CMS or some other kind of system. simon On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 03:05 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: b) validating at delivery time seems wrong to me; it should be done at author time before a document

Re: validation (was: AxKit for web applications)

2003-02-13 Thread Robin Berjon
S Woodside wrote: On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 03:05 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: b) validating at delivery time seems wrong to me; it should be done at author time before a document is committed for publishing Fair enough; unless you're validating a document that's being managed as

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-13 Thread Tod Harter
but a) we have no mechanism comparable to DOCTYPE for indicating what schema to use, so its not clear how one would record that b) validating at delivery time seems wrong to me; it should be done at author time before a document is committed for publishing Sure, but those are pretty

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-12 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:54:04AM +, Matt Sergeant wrote: The good news is that libxml2 now supports both XSD and RelaxNG. really? tell me more! -- Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-12 Thread S Woodside
Whoa, I missed that. Does that mean that I can validate now in AxKit somehow using RNG? simon On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:04 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:54:04AM +, Matt Sergeant wrote: The good news is that libxml2 now supports both XSD and RelaxNG.

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-07 Thread Tod Harter
Yes, SQL sucks awfully bad. However it doesn't have to be typed, which does make things a lot less silly. See http://www.sqlite.org/datatypes.html for info on how SQLite isn't typed. I'm not completely up to speed on the relational model, but I see no reason that it would need typing. It

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-07 Thread Tod Harter
Well, I'm not an expert on RNG by any means, so I won't get into a debate about which is better. I expect it depends on the task... SOME form of schema is very necessary however for many applications. When you say below let the software figure out the way the software figures out IS TO USE A

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-06 Thread Tod Harter
On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:38 am, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 20:16 Europe/London, Tod Harter wrote: 1) an IDL generator that can take a server class and generate the WSDL to describe the corresponding service. I have in progress a B::SAX (B is the perl backend

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tod Harter wrote: Where do you find the time? In the corner next to the battery meter. -- !-- Matt -- :-get a SMart net/:- Spam trap - do not mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-06 Thread S Woodside
Based on the recent comments on the XSL list and virtually everythign else I read when I was researching, WXS is /very/ unpopular, basically because no one can understand the spec. I took the hint and after skimming it (and it's lng) went with relax NG which is very simple and

RE: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Howe
: Re: AxKit for web applications Sounds to me like his system is basically identical in most respects to the one I came up with for a virtual private exchange (sort of an auction server type system). We used SOAP::Lite entirely, each XSP taglib was just a thin wrapper over a stub API that called

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Robin Berjon
Tom Howe wrote: The only issues I have with this is that the XPathScript transformations are not that fast, especially as there are multiple XPathScript stylesheets applied for each page. This is *not* at all to feed the XPS vs XSLT thread, but if you have XPSs that do only transformations (ie

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Pavel Penchev
- Original Message - From: Tom Howe To: 'Tod Harter' ; 'Pavel Penchev' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: RE: AxKit for web applications All this talk of beans and Java and I start coming out in a rash :) I agree to Tod

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Pavel Penchev
Message - From: Robin Berjon To: Tom Howe Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:26 PM Subject: Re: AxKit for web applications Tom Howe wrote: The only issues I have with this is that the XPathScript transformations are not that fast, especially

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Pavel Penchev wrote: We were using XPathScript - it is a wonderfull tool but in reality LibXSLT is times faster. This was the main reason we started using XSLT instead XPS. I think some STX that was mentionioned as planned for AxKit 1.7 will be a great solution :)), even

RE: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Howe
- Original Message - From: Tom Howe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Tod Harter' mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; 'Pavel Penchev' mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: RE: AxKit for web applications All this talk of beans

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Pavel Penchev
which are the very first and the very last AxKit request points. Pavel - Original Message - From: Matt Sergeant To: Pavel Penchev Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:35 PM Subject: Re: AxKit for web applications On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Pavel Penchev wrote

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Tod Harter
and Tangram sounds interesting - im certainly going to look into them. -Original Message- From: Tod Harter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2003 22:19 To: Pavel Penchev; Tom Howe Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AxKit for web applications Sounds to me like his system

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-05 Thread Tod Harter
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 06:01 am, Pavel Penchev wrote: There are nice things my I'm more concerned how a piece of code that is going to be deployed in the app server is described. Again Java but.. as an example the EJB is described by a interfaces (Local, Remote), the code that really

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 04:13 Europe/London, Kip Hampton wrote: Given that a Provider has access to everything that is available for the Language modules *and* gets to control both the content and the styles that are applied, how does it lack flexibilty, exactly? Simply because the

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Robin Berjon
Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 04:13 Europe/London, Kip Hampton wrote: Simply because the Providers are read only at the moment, so there's no direct method for submitting changes back Explain read only in this context. What changes, back to where? The provider's default

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Robin Berjon
brian wheeler wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:29, Kip Hampton wrote: I personally favor using something like CGI::XMLApplication because the model fits the way I like to work, but nothing that baroque is required. Again, as long as it can return an XML document to the Provider when needed,

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Tom Howe
Here at Deluxe Media Services we use AxKit at the front end (on our webservers) and a custom perl application server sitting behind to handle all our business logic. All database queries, data munging, session handling etc is handled on the application servers. Every page requested is based

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Pavel Penchev
server as open source ;)) Pavel - Original Message - From: Tom Howe To: Robin Berjon Cc: brian wheeler ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:30 PM Subject: Re: AxKit for web applications Here at Deluxe Media Services we use AxKit at the front end

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread brian wheeler
Fast enough :) Actually its quite peppy for what we're doing, though it does require a bit more memory, since all filter stages are kept in memory. Generally we're bulk generating things that don't change, but for data lookups and things of that nature, its pretty easy to whip up an xml

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Jörg Walter
On Tuesday, 04. February 2003 20:47, Tom Howe wrote: Since every page request requires the users session to be pulled from the database and the sessions can (occassionally) be over a meg its important that the messaging system is quick and so far we havnt had any problems. In fact the

RE: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Tom Howe
. If you made it this far, well done :) -Original Message- From: Jörg Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 February 2003 20:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AxKit for web applications On Tuesday, 04. February 2003 20:47, Tom Howe wrote: Since every page request requires

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Tod Harter
Granted. ANYthing that can execute perl code in the context of a request object can do WHATEVER you want, the only question is how easy is it and how reuseable, and how easily can it call on code written by other people that does useful stuff? I guess what I'm saying is that XSP has a lot of

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-04 Thread Tod Harter
done some work in the bean direction. Are you planning to release the app server as open source ;)) Pavel - Original Message - From: Tom Howe To: Robin Berjon Cc: brian wheeler ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:30 PM Subject: Re: AxKit for web

AxKit for web applications

2003-02-03 Thread David Chaplin-Loebell
So... How are people turning information from SQL databases into XML for AxKit? I'm thinking the best way to do this would be to use a provider. Has anyone done this yet? My concept is that a generic provider could take the rows returned by DBI and parse them into XML. So a query like: SELECT

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David Chaplin-Loebell wrote: So... How are people turning information from SQL databases into XML for AxKit? I'm thinking the best way to do this would be to use a provider. Has anyone done this yet? My concept is that a generic provider could take the rows returned by

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Monday, Feb 3, 2003, at 19:09 Europe/London, Kip Hampton wrote: Matt Sergeant wrote: It's one way to do it. I personally haven't used the provider method (see the Wiki for how I did it), because I feel it lacks flexibility. Given that a Provider has access to everything that is available

Re: AxKit for web applications

2003-02-03 Thread Kip Hampton
S Woodside wrote: Question: What's an application framework in the context of this discussion? Could be any hunk of code, really; as long as it can return an XML document to the Provider on demand, it doesn't matter. I personally favor using something like CGI::XMLApplication because the