irc log: rendering annotations with XSLT

In case this tickles someone's brain...

2004-09-02T17:22:49Z <BehzK_> i know annotea is mainly for retrieving/storing 
                     annotation BUT can it render/display thoes annotations in 
                     different ways through an XSLT maybe??
2004-09-02T17:23:49Z <ericP> ...
2004-09-02T17:24:25Z <BehzK_> Like - i get an anntation -- apply my own style 
                     sheet and then display it to the user??
2004-09-02T17:24:26Z <ericP> supposed both the annotated resource and the 
                     annotation were XHTML
2004-09-02T17:25:19Z <ericP> you could have an app pick up the annotation from 
                     the annot server and create an XSLT to drop the annotation
                     into the orig resource
2004-09-02T17:25:46Z <BehzK_> yeh -- something like that
2004-09-02T17:25:49Z <ericP> current convention has an XPointer for the context
                     (where in the orig resource the annotaiton goes)
2004-09-02T17:26:12Z <ericP> you'd have to machine-generate XSLT from that 
                     XPointer to create the XSLT
2004-09-02T17:26:20Z <ericP> might be easier to use DOM
2004-09-02T17:26:52Z <ericP> (I did that, can point you at an old proxy that 
                     would stick annotation in mouseover events in the 
                     rendering of the orig resource)
2004-09-02T17:27:46Z <BehzK_> is it hard to learn??? 
2004-09-02T17:28:07Z <ericP> DOM? not really, but you need to be comfortable in
                     a prog language
2004-09-02T17:28:31Z <ericP> but you'd have to learn some lang to turn the 
                     XPointer into XSLT.
2004-09-02T17:28:45Z <ericP> (though maybe the latter is simpler)
2004-09-02T17:29:03Z <BehzK_> yeh - i was thinking PHP maybe?
2004-09-02T17:29:34Z <ericP> i have personal prejudice against PHP, but that's 
                     more of an attitude problem
2004-09-02T17:30:03Z <BehzK_> haha
2004-09-02T17:30:12Z <ericP> i can say that, if you want to use the debugger 
                     like i was, you'll be better off with perl.
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