Re: [xml-dev] Serialization of XDM - Use cases / Proposal from David A. Lee on 2009-09-19 (xproc-dev@w3.org from September 2009)

From: David A. Lee <dlee@calldei.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:20:50 -0400
To: Jim Tivy <jimt@bluestream.com>
CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, "'XProc Dev'" <xproc-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4AB431F2.8050104@calldei.com>
This spec describes concatenation of node sequences such that they are 
parseable as entities.

In the case you describe I think that fits well.
Atleast in my reading


    5 XML Output Method

This describes serializing a sequence of nodes.  I think this spec would 
fit for your use case.
Atleast that is my read, I admit I have a hard time following the 
reading of this spec (not to blame the authors, I just have a hard time 
understanding it all)


David A. Lee
dlee@calldei.com  
http://www.calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org
812-482-5224



Jim Tivy wrote:
> David
>
> I do not see in this spec where it defines the serialization of a sequence.
> I was not talking about concatenating "nodes" but rather concatenation of
> text from a sequence after it was serialized.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Lee [mailto:dlee@calldei.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 4:46 PM
> To: Jim Tivy
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org; 'XProc Dev'
> Subject: 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
> dlee@calldei.com  
> http://www.calldei.com
> http://www.xmlsh.org
> 812-482-5224
>
>
>
> 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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