On Mon, 7 May 2001, Morgan Delagrange wrote:
> Reviewing this patch brings up an interesting design question. This patch
> builds an http url, but maybe that's not the way to go. Using this
> method:
>
> String xsl = application.getResource("style.xsl").toString();
>
> we can create a file url, which is going to be significantly more
> performant. Which is preferable?
>
> File URLs:
>
> Pros:
> Performance
>
> Cons:
> Stylesheets must be flat files
>
> HTTP URLs:
>
> Pros:
> Flexibility
>
> Cons:
> Performance
>
> Or we could just punt and indicate the issues in the docs. Or we could
> provide tags to build both file and http urls (I think this is
> my preference). Opinions?
>
An additional ad
I'm not sure your assumptions about performance are necessarily correct in
all circumstances.
For example, in Tomcat 4.0 the ServletContext.getResource() call returns a
URL that starts "jndi:", because it uses an internal-to-Tomcat stream
handler.
> - Morgan
>
>
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jeff Turner wrote:
>
> > Nifty..
> >
> > Attached is a patch that allows the user to specify relative URLs (relative to
> > the context root) in the "uri" attribute.
> >
> > --Jeff
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:21:02AM -0700, Morgan Delagrange wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I checked in a very preliminary version of some new XSL transform tags in
> > > the repository on the "rel2" branch. The build script doesn't really work
> > > yet; you'll need jaxp to compile it.
> > >
> > > It has new syntax compared to the current XSL tag library (see the example
> > > JSP for now, until the docs are ready.) It is based
> > > on TraX, so it should be pluggable with any trax parser. Right now it
> > > does simple transformations based on URIs, Readers, InputStreams, Strings
> > > and/or tag bodies.
> > >
> > > However, since it's based on TraX, it should be possible to also work with
> > > DOMs and possibly SAX events. Also, we can take advantage of other nice
> > > TraX features, like configurable output properties.
> > >
> > > I ripped out some features, like stylesheet caching, in this version to
> > > make the TraX conversion simpler. In a follow-up email, I'm going to
> > > nominate Rod Waldhoff as a committer, since he actually designed this tag
> > > library and I mostly just ported it to TraX.
> > >
> > > - Morgan
> >
>
>
