From: Matt Sergeant <matt@...>
Date: 2002-01-20T19:53:56+09:00
Subject: Re: any thoughts on creating jsp counterpart (rsp, ruby server pages) for dynamic web pages

Bryan Murphy wrote:

>>
>>
>> Maybe it would be a good idea not to invent another proprietary server
>> page syntax, but to create XSP for ruby. XSP was originally invented
>> in Apache's Cocoon project (http://xml.apache.org) and was then ported
>> to Perl (http://www.axkit.org). In my opinion it is the cleanest
>> approach, because it strictly separates application and presentation.
>>
> Well, then you might like to hear about my project!  It's a framework 
> *VERY* similar to Cocoon 2 for Ruby.  Currently runs under Apache using 
> mod_ruby!
> 
> I plan to release the first version for public consumption on or around 
> monday.  I need to do two things over the weekend to prep it: finish the 
> basic documentation and get the sample application to a point where it's 
> useable.


Now this looks very interesting :-)

I asked a while back if there would be any interest in a Ruby port of 
AxKit but there wasn't. I'm glad to see things taking off in this direction!

Let me know if you want/need any help with the XSP stuff - AxKit's 
implementation of it is quite a bit superior to Cocoon's (uses SAX 
rather than XSLT), so it'd be nice to share ideas there.

Matt.