Re: [TM4J-users] TM4J project web site & XTM (was RE: new member)

[Florian H. <f.g...@gm...>]

[me]
> >Actually generating the site from XTM exclusively is, I think, beyond our
> >possibilities at the moment. For now, we don't even have a set of XSLT
> >stylesheets we can use in order to transform everything into HTML. Thomas
> >and I are thinking about taking care of that eventually, but for now we
> have
> >to acknowledge that what we've got is quite little. Unless of course you,
> >Kal, talk to your friends at Ontopia and they give away the Omnigator for
> >free! :-)

[Kal]
> That would be an idea - though we would need somewhere to host it too - 
> Sourceforge don't support JSP on their hosts :-( As we reach the point of 
> needing a dynamically generated site from XTM, it would be nice to do it 
> with TM4J tools anyway - and I think that within that time frame some 
> alternative hosting solution may come up...Especially if my consulting 
> takes off ;-)

Actually, the thing about using Omnigator was supposed to be a joke on my
part. :-) Not that I don't like it -- in fact I love it and I think the
Ontopians have put together an awesome piece of work -- but there are two main
reasons why I don't think it would be too good an idea to use it for the TM4J web
site. Feel free to correct me if any of these happen to be based on false
assumptions.

1. TM4J is free, Omnigator isn't.
2. Omnigator is JSP-centered, rather than XSLT-centered.

While the latter isn't a problem in and of itself, I do believe it would be
a good idea to keep TM4J as deeply rooted in standards or de facto standards
as possible. We already use Xerces, Jakarta-regexp, Xalan etc. ... wouldn't
it be a better idea to use XSLT (which is a W3C recommendation), XHTML (which
is a W3C recommendation), and XTM (which should be a W3C recommendation :-) )
along with the corresponding Apache project packages, which everyone uses,
rather than using a from-scratch JSP implementation? I think the former is
more in line with the open-source nature of TM4J.

Comments? Thoughts? Flames? :-)
-- Florian

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