Re: [xsl] In Search of People Who Know About and/or Use the, Document Function

["M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:39:14 -0600, Andrew Welch
<andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That aside, constructing the page using client side calls to the
> document() is certainly something I hadn't considered - it seems a
> very modular almost MVC approach.

Welcome to the Dark Side, Andrew!  I knew you'd cross the line sooner or
later. ;-)

So yeah, if anyone has been wondering why on earth I have such a Bee in my
Bonnet over client-side XSLT document() function support it's for this
exact reason.  I've been somewhat quietly building a client/server XSLT
MVC framework[1,2] in which the document function is the single most
important piece of the puzzle, and while it's still a bit early to be
making a release**, here's a fairly basic example of how combining server
side XSLT 2.0 (In this case, Saxon on .NET) with a standards compliant
client-side XSLT 1.0 (in this case, *ANY* major browser other than Opera
;-)),

Add one part:
http://personplacething.info/service/proxy/return-xml-from-html/?uri=http://w
ww.myspace.com/umemusic//html:html
*

With one part: <code-snippet> <doc:html
href="/service/proxy/return-xml-from-html?uri=http://www.myspace.com/umemusic
//html:html"
type="screen-scrape" id="profile_bandschedule" /> </code-snippet>

And one part: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="/transform/client-side/atomictalk-browser.xsl"?>

Shake (never, *EVER* stir!) lightly. > Enjoy! >
http://personplacething.info/screen-scrape/

NOTE: It gets *MUCH* better than this silly example, I promise. :D

* Life sure does get interesting when the entire web of HTML documents
suddenly becomes your own personal playground of limitless XML data. ;-)
** For those in the greater Salt Lake City, UT area on September 25th,
2007 at the Utah Ruby Users Group I'm speaking with Tim Heuer from
Microsoft, Tim on IronRuby[5], myself on Ruby.NET[6], and at that event I
will be releasing[1,2,3,4]

[1] http://extf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/WebApp/transform/
[2] http://atomictalk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
[3] http://extf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Xameleon
[4] http://nuxleus.com/dev/
[5] http://ironruby.rubyforge.org/
[6] http://code.google.com/p/rubydotnetcompiler/


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