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XML::XPathScript version 0.13 hit CPAN last week. This release features a sizable set of improvements contributed by Yanick Champoux:
~ * Added support for XML::LibXML (a *lot* faster) ~ * As a transition step, added Apache::Axkit::Language::YPathScript ~ to the distribution. It allows one to use XML::XPathScript's ~ enhancements in AxKit too (and is ultimately intended to replace ~ a likely-named, duplicated-code, no-longer-evolving module in ~ AxKit). ~ * Miscellaneous enhancements and bugfixes, see Changes.
We would like to hear from volunteers who are already using XPathScript under AxKit and willing to test our work, so that we can safely request Matt Sergeant to perform phase 2 of the transition outlined above. The testers' task amounts to performing some s/XPathScript/YPathScript/g in the Apache config and stylesheets, and then installing the new XML::XPathScript from CPAN, but feel free to contact me or Yanick for further assistance. Success / failure reports also most welcome! WHAT IS IT ?
This is the XML::XPathScript stylesheet framework, part of the AxKit project at http://axkit.org/.
XPathScript is a stylesheet language similar in many ways to XSLT (in concept, not in appearance), for transforming XML from one format to another (possibly HTML, but XPathScript also shines for non-XML-like output).
Like XSLT, XPathScript offers a dialect to mix verbatim portions of documents and code. Also like XSLT, it leverages the powerful ``templates/apply-templates'' and ``cascading stylesheets'' design patterns, that greatly simplify the design of stylesheets for programmers. The availability of the XPath query language inside stylesheets promotes the use of a purely document-dependent, side-effect-free coding style. But unlike XSLT which uses its own dedicated control language with an XML-compliant syntax, XPathScript uses Perl which is terse and highly extendable.
The result of the merge is an extremely powerful tool for rendering complex XML documents into other formats. Stylesheets written in XPathScript are very easy to create, extend and reuse, even if they manage hundreds of different XML tags.
- -- Dominique QUATRAVAUX Ing�nieur senior 01 44 42 00 08 IDEALX
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