[ANN] Resin supports XPath/XSLT July draft

[Scott Ferguson <ferg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The latest Resin beta now supports the XSLT July draft for HTML and JSP
generation.   Resin focuses on server page generation using XSLT, although it does
include a standalone XSLT processor.  Resin's XML Template Pages (XTP) separates
page contents from server-side scripting and styling.  XSLT stylesheets are
responsible for generating the server-side scripting using JSP.  In contrast, other
server page generators, like ASP, PHP and JSP, mix scripting with HTML.

The Resin home page is http://www.caucho.com

Some of the Resin features:
  * Generates JSP using stylesheets.
  * Stylesheets compile to JavaScript or Java at the user's direction.
  * Templates can use JavaScript or Java to access Java libraries like JDBC with
xtp:expression and xtp:scriptlet tags
  * Cached pages are served nearly as fast as static pages.  Cached generated JSP
pages execute as
     fast as servlets
  * Generation and application of XSL stylesheets are available as Java APIs.
  * XPath queries are also available as a Java API, allowing querying and selection
of DOM trees.
  * Included servlet 2.1 engine, web server, Apache and IIS supports a wide range
of deployment options.

As a trivial example of using Resin to create JSP, the following template creates
JSP to print a query variable:

<xsl:template match='ct:query'>
  <jsp:expression>
    request.getParameter("<xsl:value-of select='@name'>")
  </jsp:expression>
</xsl:template>

The sample xtp file might contain a section like:

First Name: <ct:query name='first-name'/><br/>
Last Name: <ct:query name='last-name'/>

When called to process a form submission, it would produce the HTML:

First Name: Scott<br>
Last Name: Ferguson


Scott Ferguson
Caucho Technology
http://www.caucho.com



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