Re: [Xins-users] xins client question

[arthur <mai...@gm...>]

I download XINS 1.3.0 today and following the Primer sample to setup our my
test. Thanks Ernst's details instructions, everything went really smoothly.

Instead of changing my system path for Java/Ant/Xins as in step 2/5/9, I was
running a bat in dos window under the Xins home dir. Looks it works for me.

echo Run this from your XINS home dir.
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Progra~1\java\jdk1.5.0_03
set ANT_HOME=D:\apps\apache-ant-1.6.5
set XINS_HOME=%CD%
set path=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%XINS_HOME%\bin;
cd myProject

Now I am adding XSLT support to MyAPI
1) impl.xml
<calling-convention name="_xins-xslt" />

2) add page1.xslt under myproject\apis\myApi\spec

<xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
     xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
<xsl:template match="/">
     <h1>
          <xsl:value-of select="//param"/>
     </h1>
     <h2>
          <xsl:value-of select="//greeting"/>
     </h2>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

3) restart Xins as
"xins -Dorg.xins.server.config=xins.properties -Dtemplates.callingconvention
.source=myproject\apis\myApi\spec\page1.xslt run-MyAPI
"

But I still see the xml in my browser. I believe something is wrong in my
xslt (Being lazy again, I grab a sample from internet without understanding
the syntax :-( )

Then what is wrong?

Thanks,

Arthur

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ernst de Haan" <wfe...@gm...>
To: "arthur" <mai...@gm...>
Cc: <xin...@li...>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Xins-users] xins client question


Arthur,


> I don't want install JRE on the client side. If I code a cpp GUI to
collect
> user input then I need a cpp http client lib to make the call to XINS. Any
> good (and simple as XINS) cpp client recommand?

What exactly are you trying to do? And what is your client
environment? Are you going to develop a client (Windows?) application,
e.g. using Visual C++ or are you going to develop a server-side
application that will produce HTML?

> If I use a web browser as client, then how can I config XINS to let the
user
> see the response in a web page instead of xml? As my understanding, I need
a
> css to map the xml to xdoc. I that true. My server response is always
simple
> as "Well done, this take me 5s" or "Invalid input".

You have a host of options:

- Use CSS on the returned XML (bad idea)
- Configure the XSLT calling convention and write some XSLT (see user guide)
- Use the new XINS frontend framework (see PetStore example in XINS 1.4)
- Write a custom calling convention (see user guide)

The right choice depends on what you want, exactly... Could you elaborate?

Regards,


Ernst