Re: [mod-xslt-devel] Re: mod-xslt

[Philipp D. <ph...@du...>]

Hi G.,

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> > I will send you a .tgz sometime end of this/beginning of next week. It
> > is the first part of the 3 part thing I told you about. After this the
> > only thing that's missing is the PDF renderer.
exins: Creates xml dynamically (could be used to build a very fast CMS)
via an xml-based language
xslt: (What we have been working on)
pdf: Make PDF from xsl-fo to in a webserver module.
This would be a perfect base for a CMS or any other web project

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> Also:
> - we should disable external references in our module, esp if we want
> to do the transformation. The whole thing should be self-contained. It 
> will also give us an opportunity to finish If-Modified-Since code and
> will simplify things. What do you think of this?
I disagree, because external references are afaik resolved automatically
by libxml2/libxslt. I would just ignore them for If-Modified-Since.
There needs to be some responsibility left for the webmaster. All he'd
need to do is touch the main file to clear the cache. I think external
references may have more value than this extra hassle.
(This is what I call a RFD {Request for Dispute})
> - We need some cleanup of the code and and to remove any dead code that
> we don't need.
Definitely
> - We need to add some thread safety code and make sure we are not
> leaking
> anything. 
Definitely, but thread safety is not a matter of adding things, it's a
matter of cleanup! Any access to global variables will kill thread
safety. We also need to check if libxml2/libxslt are even thread safe.
> At this point I am trying to stabilize most of my changes and will
> try to have it pretty stable and start to heavy test this by the end of
> the
> week. My reason for this is that I need to have a frozen version to 
> test/setup on other server(s) at work. 
Feature Freeze is right up my alley. For my tastes, mod-xslt should do
one thing and do it well. Any more features and it will suffer from
bloat.
There have been times, when I even thought of removing the whole
parameter and cookie thing and simply stick to XSLT and XSLT alone.
But since Parameters are part of the spec, I figured they might be worth
it.
> Should I add #defines for my stuff?
No
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TTY Philipp
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