Re: How to add more transports/protocols to XProc?

Another option is to wrap your external systems with web services (using 
the term in the most general sense) of some sort. XProc has pretty good 
support for HTTP in general, so if you can wrap your external systems 
with XML+HTTP, then you don't need XProc extensions in order to be able 
to use them - you can use pure XProc, and hence you have no dependency 
on any particular version of any particular XProc processor.

Regards

Con


On 14/03/11 19:07, vojtech.toman@emc.com wrote:
>
> Adina,
>
> The most natural way to accomplish this is by using extension steps. 
> Basically, you would be adding new "black boxes" to your pipeline that 
> do the things that you want -- executing SQL queries, making SOAP 
> requests etc. We have done this quite often at EMC and this approach 
> actually works quite nicely.
>
> One thing to note is that you should be careful about ensuring that 
> the steps are executed in the right order. In a workflow situation, 
> this is typically quite important. It is therefore a good practice 
> that the extension steps have input ports and output ports, so that 
> you can easily express dependencies between the steps by adding 
> explicit connections (p:pipe bindings). In some situations it doesn't 
> matter, but you typically want to prevent the XProc processor from 
> "randomly" deciding the execution order of the steps in the pipeline.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vojtech
>
> --
>
> Vojtech Toman
>
> Consultant Software Engineer
>
> EMC | Information Intelligence Group
>
> vojtech.toman@emc.com
>
> http://developer.emc.com/xmltech
>
> *From:*xproc-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:xproc-dev-request@w3.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Adina Gupta
> *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2011 8:26 PM
> *To:* xproc-dev@w3.org
> *Subject:* How to add more transports/protocols to XProc?
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm wondering how could I use XProc to form a workflow to do things 
> that are not directly related to XML or the kind. For example, Calling 
> SQL queries/stored procedures, communication over plain udp/tcp 
> sockets etc.
>
> More precisely my workflow would be to couple a few sql select 
> queries, a few stored procedure calls and then based on the output 
> plug some sockets and write/read data over them, transform the 
> response and that's it return an output XML.
>
> Is it possible? If yes then what's the best way of writing connectors 
> for such transports? An extension step or may be something else?
>
> Adina
>


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