RE: [xsl] Dynamic web pages using Saxon and Linux (Apache)

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry, but I have no idea why several replies to this message have
mentioned eXist. I'm sure eXist is a fine product, but it is primarily an
XML database, and there is nothing in this requirements statement to suggest
that an XML database is needed.

Clearly the amount you invest in infrastructure and middleware technologies
(even if they are free, there's a cost in learning about them) depends on
the complexity of your application, which is something you have given us few
clues about. From your description it looks fairly simple, so my recommended
solution would be to install Tomcat as a servlet engine, and then implement
the transformations (that is, the code that invokes XSLT) as a Java servlet.

If things get more complex, for example pipelines of transformations, use of
a database, and use of XForms, then you might want to look at Orbeon.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hughes [mailto:chris_hughes22@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 27 August 2008 14:30
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Dynamic web pages using Saxon and Linux (Apache)
> 
> Hi all
> 
> A plea for a bit of help here as I don't really know where to begin.
> 
> I have my XML document and XSLT document that takes paramaters.
> 
> I have a web page which gets the input that I wish to pass to 
> Saxon to do the transformation.
> 
> All of my bits and pieces work seperately and I managed to 
> get my resultant web page generated and displayed using ASP 
> .NET technologies.
> 
> I now need to glue this together on a Linux platform using 
> Apache webserver - trouble is I don't really know where to 
> begin.  I appreciate answers may be long so any links to 
> other web sites, example code or pointers would be a massive benefit.
> 
> This is a new project and so I can install any software we 
> need to on the server within reason.  My preferred processor 
> is Saxon as we use it elsewhere and I want full v2.0 compliancy.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Chris.
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