Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread brian moseley
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: > The alternative of course it to just plug them both > together - AxKit and Mason play nicely together using > Apache::Filter (though it's a bit slow). with version 2.3 of the java servlet api, you can now create input and output filters, just like the

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 23 Apr 2001, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Well I will say that you made an excellent point that hadn't really > occured to me---I use XML + XSL for a lot of stuff (the DTD I use for > my resume is a deeply reworked version of one I believe you had posted > at one time), but not web sites, in p

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ian Kallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mason and AxKit solve different but related problems. The former a > code-aware component system with process semantics that lend itself to > easily scoping a component's applicability, the latter a > transformation engine. It would b

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread ed phillips
Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It depends a *lot* on the type of content on your site. The above > > www.dorado.com is brochureware, so it's not likely to need to be > > re-styled for lighter browsers, or WebTV, or WAP, or... etc. So your > > content (I

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Ian Kallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mason and AxKit solve different but related problems. The former a code-aware component system with process semantics that lend itself to easily scoping a component's applicability, the latter a transformation engine. It would be nice to see a framework published that uses the best of both (sor

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It depends a *lot* on the type of content on your site. The above > www.dorado.com is brochureware, so it's not likely to need to be > re-styled for lighter browsers, or WebTV, or WAP, or... etc. So your > content (I'm guessing) is pure HTML, with Mason

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 23 Apr 2001, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Errr, respectfully, I think you underestimate Mason's capabilities. Not really. I've researched Mason quite a bit, and I talk with Jon every ApacheCon/OSSCON about how we can bring together the Mason and AxKit synergy. Now Jon has been to my talk, we

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The one thing I think AxKit does really well, that other > "templating" solutions aren't really designed for, is allowing you > to build your whole web site with that solution. So for example, > Mason and EmbPerl are really great for building the dynamic

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Joachim Zobel wrote: > > Hi. > > I try to understand why and if this XML/XSL stuff is useful. Is it that > transformations (XSL) of XML to HTML can be used instead of the usual HTML > templates (eg. Template-Toolkit)? Partly. But XSLT is also able to transform documents, wh

Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-21 Thread Joachim Zobel
Hi. I try to understand why and if this XML/XSL stuff is useful. Is it that transformations (XSL) of XML to HTML can be used instead of the usual HTML templates (eg. Template-Toolkit)? Can this do what a template engine can do? Where are the limitations? Is there something it can't do? Than