funny. i was just ran across axkit the other day which looks like a promising alternative to cocoon [ promising insomuch as one would consider anything tied to perl promising]:
“AxKit is an XML Application Server for Apache. It provides on-the-fly conversion from XML to any format, such as HTML, WAP or text using either W3C standard techniques, or flexible custom code. AxKit also uses a built-in Perl interpreter to provide some amazingly powerful techniques for XML transformation.”
“AxKit makes the separation of content and presentation a practical reality. The pipelining technique that AxKit uses allows content to be converted to a presentable format in stages, allowing certain platforms to see data differently to others. AxKit allows web designers to focus on web site design, content developers to work on a purely content basis, and webmasters to focus on their core competencies.”
anyway, today i find an excellent set of Matt Segeant’s
slides [via aaronland] which give a detailed overview of axkit.