Re: [xml-dev] Serialization of XDM - Use cases / Proposal

This is a case, if I'm reading it properly, where the current XDM 
Serializaiton spec may serve perfectly.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/

That would concatenate the result nodes such that it is serialized 
equivalently to an external entity.



David A. Lee
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Jim Tivy wrote:
> Here is a better description of the use case I have:
>
> There are a number "templating" technologies in use for defining web pages;
> for example PHP, ASP and JSP.  These templating languages have been very
> successful.  When these templates "execute", they produce an HTML page as an
> HTTP response.  These templating technologies allow you to mix html tags
> with program logic to create web pages dynamically.  These templating
> languages, as a rule, are text based in that they define a page by
> concatenating HTML chunks of text together.  For example, in a JSP file,
> sometimes these HTML chunks are literal text and other times they are
> calculated and "injected inline" into the output - always as text.
>
> It should be possible to inject an XDM text serialization (a sequence of
> <div> tags and children, for instance) as returned by
> getPipelineSerialization () call in this simple JSP page shown below: 
>
> <html>
>    <body>
>       <% out.write(getPipelineSerialization("mypipeline")); %>
>    </body>
> </html>
>
> examples of jsps:
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/html/jspbasics.fm.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Tivy [mailto:jimt@bluestream.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 3:12 PM
> To: 'David A. Lee'
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org; talk@x-query.com; 'XProc Dev'
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Serialization of XDM - Use cases / Proposal
>
> Hi David
>
> We use XDM serialization - for a simple sequence.  We have a pipeline that
> we execute and the last node is XPath /html/body/* of an upstream html
> document - we call it html core output.  We use this in JSP (java server
> pages) code where we wish to establish the css files and meta tags but serve
> up the html content from the pipeline.
>
> If you like I can write this up in your wiki.
>
> Jim
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Lee [mailto:dlee@calldei.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 2:07 PM
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org; talk@x-query.com; XProc Dev
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Serialization of XDM - Use cases / Proposal
>
> I have created a first pass at documenting the problem of XDM 
> Serialization and created some use cases.
> I would love any feedback or comments.  This is on a new wiki I created 
> for this purpose.  If you would like to comment directly on the wiki 
> please reply to me and I will give you the invite code (due to the sad 
> state of affairs anonymous comments and editing are disabled due to 
> wiki-spam-bots.  I've found spam within 5 minutes of opening a public 
> wiki ... <sigh> )
>
>
> http://xml.calldei.com/XDMSerialize
>
> I have NOT included a proposal for a format yet, I'd like to discuss the 
> intent and use cases first before putting up a straw-man proposal.
>
> Thank you for any contribution !
>
> I've CC'd this to xproc-dev because one of the use cases if for 
> developers and integrators with XML Pipeline processors such as XProc
>
>
> David A. Lee
> dlee@calldei.com  
> http://www.calldei.com
> http://www.xmlsh.org
> 812-482-5224
>
>
>
>
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