[Webassembletool-devel] Proposal: unified ESI syntax for taglib and aggregator

[François-Xavier B. <fx....@gm...>]

Hi all,

I have made a comparison between what can be done with the jsp taglib 
and the aggregator.
As ESI support is almost complete, I also compared to what can be done 
with ESI.

I have put all that in a big table in the wiki. There are a lot of 
functionalities in common but the syntax is quite different, for example 
to include a page :

    * taglib: <w:includeblock page="..." />
    * aggregator: <!--$includeblock$aggregated2$block.html$myblock$-->
    * esi: <esi:include src="..." />


I think it would be much more easy for ESIGate users to have a unified 
syntax. So I added to the table a last column with a proposal for a new 
syntax for each functionality. The syntax is ESI when the functionality 
exists in ESI, some extra functionalities are inspired by Akamai ESI 
extensions and other extensions are proper pour ESIGate but all the tags 
are prefixed with <esi: (like they do in Akamai).
We could continue support for older syntax but only consider it as 
deprecated.

The table is here: 
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/webassembletool/index.php?title=ESI_syntax_and_ESIGate_extensions
So what do you think about it ?