[DAS2] xsl/content-type/browser fun

[Allen Day]

Yes, I made a lot of changes to the server yesterday -- bringing it up to 
date with CVS head at Gregg's request.  The xslt stuff wasn't in CVS.  I 
can add it if you think this is really a useful feature.

-Allen


On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Chervitz, Steve wrote:

> Neat trick, but I'm getting a server error now.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> > From: Allen Day <allenday at ucla.edu>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: Andrew Dalke <dalke at dalkescientific.com>
> > Cc: <das2 at portal.open-bio.org>
> > Subject: [DAS2] xsl/content-type/browser fun
> > 
> > So i figured a way around to get browser-viewable content from the server
> > with the ?format= GET parameter.  Not sure how much value there is in
> > this, but here is a very simple graphical display of regions on the
> > server, and their relative sizes.
> > 
> > http://das.biopackages.net/das/genome/chado/chado-Hsa-17/region?format=html
> > 
> > All that's happening here is that ifyou request format=html, the server
> > gives a Content-Type header of "text/xml" instead of
> > "text/x-das-whatever+xml".  The altered Content-Type, in combination with
> > a stylesheet directive pointing to an XSL, allows the browser to show you
> > a nice markup of the response.
> > 
> > -Allen
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Allen Day wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >> 
> >> I tried out your idea of having the XML returned by the DAS server include
> >> an XSL reference at the top.  It works, but I had to make some changes
> >> that I'm not happy with:
> >> 
> >> * the root XML element had to have the xmlns attribute removed, or the
> >> transform wouldn't work.  the xmlns:xlink and xml:base attributes were
> >> okay to leave in.
> >> 
> >> * my browser (firefox) refused to render the document unless i changed the
> >> mimetype to text/xml.  it didn't want to display text/x-das-sources+xml
> >> 
> >> Any idea how to fix either of these?  I took the liberty to modify the
> >> content-type and remove the xmlns attribute from the root element, so you
> >> can see the result on the production server:
> >> 
> >> http://das.biopackages.net/das/genome
> >> 
> >> -Allen
> >> 
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