[roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com: Introducing AxKit]

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Thu Mar 14 21:43:57 CST 2002


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AxKit is an example of really pushing the Perl envelope; it's a
mod_perl application for dynamic transformation of XML inside
the web server.  I've seen it used very effectively to serve up
web sites with the content completely written in XML, to style
the output, choose between HTML, PDF and other output formats, to
degrade depending on browser, and so on.  Barrie Slaymaker begins
a series of articles on how to get the best of AxKit by explaining
how to go about setting it up and serving up some simple XML files.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/12/axkit.html


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SC

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Introducing AxKit
This is the first in the series of articles by Barrie Slaymaker
on setting up and running AxKit. AxKit is a mod_perl application
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http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/12/axkit.html

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