Re: [Bodington-developers] CSS and Colours in Bodington

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

I bu**ered up this explanation by getting mixed up with XSL XSLT and CSS and
implying a reliance on FO support in the browser.  Sorry, I'll do a 
proper job in a
web page and post the URL.

Jon

Jon Maber wrote:

> Now I've had my tea I'll try and describe the plan that I have for my 
> own application;
>
> I will have document files as XHTML delivered by Apache in the normal 
> way.
>
> They will all reference a virtual XSL style file (not CSS) via a URL 
> that maps
> to a CGI script or Servlet or whatever using the extra path 
> information in the
> URL to specify the same directory that the original document is in.
>
> There will be an XML file in the same directory as the document that 
> describes
> some colours and dimensions with informaiton about how these can be 
> transformed.
> And there will also be an XSL file.  Each user will have a user 
> directory which
> will contain another XML file with user options defined in it.
>
> The CGI script or servlet or whatever will use an XSLT file to 
> transform the documents'
> XSL file using the current document data file and the user preferences 
> file. The resulting
> transformed XSL file will be cached in the user's directory and sent 
> to the browser which
> it can be used to style the XHTML file. Obviouly if the CGI script (or 
> whatever) detects
> that the cached file is newer than the three input files it will just 
> send it without
> regenerating it.
>
> I'm saying CGI or Java or whatever because  most work would be done by 
> XSLT. The work could be integrated into Bodington quite easily - you'd 
> just need to make
> templates to ask the users for preferences and output that as XML 
> preferences files
> according to the DTDs that I devise.
>
> I'm going to do this for my own purposes probably starting mid-April.  
> It's for use on my
> own web site and I wasn't planning to distribute it but I'd be willing 
> to sell it to bodington.org
> after I and you have tested it for distribution under the open source 
> license.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
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