[DAS2] xsl/content-type/browser fun

[Chervitz, Steve]

> 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.

I do.

Steve

> -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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