From: Roy Tennant (roy.tennant@ucop.edu)
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 15:25:38 PDT
A couple of the ways that you can serve XML to the web (using XSLT as
Rusty described) are Cocoon (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/) and AxKit
(http://axkit.org/). We've had some experience with Cocoon, enough to
lead us to believe that AxKit may be better! Cocoon is written in Java,
and therefore requires a servlet environment such as Tomcat, while AxKit
is written in Perl and is dependent on mod_perl. Both work with Apache,
and probably other web servers (I just never needed to know).
Roy Tennant
On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 01:57 PM, Rusty Wright wrote:
> One of the possibilities I'd like to see investigated is using xml.
> Adobe's new version of InDesign supports xml. You do the document the
> usual way in InDesign and can additionally tag everything in it with
> xml tags. You can then export the document to an xml file with the
> tags.
>
> You then need to write an xslt file, a style sheet for an xml file,
> and a program that applies the xslt file to the xml file and produces
> html. Saxon is one program that was recommended to me, XMLSpy is
> another. It's not clear to me if XMLSpy does the translation since
> it's marketed as an xml editor.
>
> In the xslt file you can do things like drop out elements you don't
> want on the web; graphics for the header or footer, or the page
> number, for example.
>
> Using this method all of the information can be preserved. The uphill
> parts are learning xml and learning and writing an xslt file. And
> finding a good program that does the xml+xslt=html translation; most
> people involved with xml tend to think of it as a way to provide data
> for dynamic web pages and the xml+xslt part is done by the web server.
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