On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 21:36 -0500, Robert Koberg wrote:
> Hi, (anybody here?)
>
> Brand new to mod-xslt2. I read through the docs and most of the mailing
> list. I saw in the docs
> (http://www.mod-xslt2.com/doc/manual.xml?sect=6#):
>
> "Right now, POST requests are not supported and will never be unless
> somebody decides it worth and either works on it or bagges me to do so."
>
> I would like to beg for it, but rather than an extension element, a
> custom function. (is there any way to write extensions in something like
> python??).
>
> For example:
>
> <xsl:variable
> name="response"
> select="yaslt:forward($request) or yaslt:forward-request()"/>
perhaps it would be better to add an argument for a URI to redirect to.
For example:
>
> 'forward' acts like the XSL document function sending the request (GET
> or POST or ?). Then some local:/// uri handles the request and returns
> XML which can be used in the transformation. Imagine an XHTML template
> mapped to URIs that is used as the main XML source in the transform. The
> 'response' variable is set as a global and used to fill in the template.
>
> Instant mini-framework.
>
Make that a non-denominational view layer.
best,
-Rob
> >From reading the other docs, the way to create an 'xmlfilter' was to
> write to a tmp file or into memory. The forward function would remove
> that need. Even more, the XML could be written to the response stream
> from a SAX-like writer (or just put in an xml string) to return to the
> forward function to live in (the example above) an XSL variable (or
> perhaps for use in apply-templates, value-of, or wherever the select
> attribute is allowed).
>
> Since this XML can be streamed into the response, a DOM does not need to
> be created making it really easy for any other server-side processing to
> supply the response. And you get memory benefits of the optimized DOM
> that the processor uses rather than a full DOM. I assume you probably
> need to use something that plugs into apache like python, php, tomcat,
> etc. (Could you forward the request to some app running on a different
> port or server? It would probably be nice, but I don't think it is
> necessary).
>
> does that make sense?
>
> best,
> -Rob
>
