[DAS2] xsl/content-type/browser fun

[Allen Day]

We should discuss making the content type for all das2xml responses as 
text/xml then, and putting the das format information in an x-das-* 
header.  That way you won't have to append the ?format=html for web 
browsers... it will just work.

-Allen

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

> 
> > 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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