[XML-SIG] Announcing maki

[Sam Brauer]

It does caching already.  On my test system (a 400 mhz PII)
static XML -> XSLT -> HTML is served out of cache in about 5
milliseconds.  With every request, maki tests whether any of the input
files have been modified (thereby invalidating the cache).
Each step is cached, so if your XML goes through two XSLT passes and only
the last stylesheet has changed, the cached output of the first XSLT pass
is used, instead of starting over from scratch.

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Sam Brauer : Systems Programmer : sam@webslingerZ.com

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Clark C. Evans wrote:

>
> Looks neat.  I'll dig into it in about 2-3 weeks.
> I'd like to see a simple caching mechanism as well,
> so that HTML pages arn't re-generated all the time
> for relatively static content.
>
> Clark
>
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Sam Brauer wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:16:25 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Sam Brauer <sam@webslingerZ.com>
> > To: xml-sig@python.org
> > Subject: [XML-SIG] Announcing maki
> >
> > I have just made the first release of a project I have been working on for
> > the past couple of months.
> > The project's name is 'maki'.  To quote from the manual:
> >
> > "The purpose of maki is to serve XML files via the web. A web developer
> > can specify that the XML data be processed or transformed through any
> > number of steps. Each step is either a stylesheet transformation or a
> > custom process. A processor that evaluates embedded Python code is
> > included. The output of each step is passed as the input to the next step
> > (similar to a Unix pipe). Additionally, the output of each processor step
> > can be cached for a user-specified time period. All configuration is in a
> > central XML file that specifies rules based on matching paths against
> > regular expressions."
> >
> > maki relies on Python2, Apache, 4Suite, and mod_python.  It also
> > supports the use of Sablotron and Sab-pyth for XSLT (these are optional,
> > since maki uses 4xslt as the default XSLT transformer).
> >
> > maki is currently in the alpha stage (fully functional, but in need of
> > community criticism and real-world testing).  I would very much welcome
> > any feedback.
> >
> > If you're interested, take a look at http://maki.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
> >
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> > Sam Brauer : Systems Programmer : sam@webslingerZ.com
> >
> >
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