Dax Declarative Api For Xml

DAX: Where Flowscript meets XSLT Lars Trieloff, Mindquarry

Lars Trieloff • Entrepreneur, Blogger, Open Source Coder • OSS Projects • Apache Cocoon • Mindquarry • Goshaky • DAX

What is DAX • DAX means Declarative API for XML • A way to process XML • By expressing what parts of a document you want to process • Based on Java, Javascript and Cocoon

DAX History • Feb 2005: Kim Wolk writes XMLTO, a .NET library that transforms XML into objects • March 2005: Ryan Cox ports it to Java 5, using Annotations and dom4j‘s Transformer API • 2006 to 2007: DAX is used in production at Mindquarry, adopted to Cocoon

DAX Modules and Dependencies DAX

DAX Modules and Dependencies DAX DAX-Java

DAX Modules and Dependencies DAX DAX-Java dom4j

DAX Modules and Dependencies DAX DAX- DAX-Java Javascript dom4j

DAX Modules and Dependencies DAX DAX- DAX-Java Javascript dom4j Rhino

DAX Modules and Dependencies DAX DAX- DAX- DAX-Java Javascript Cocoon dom4j Rhino

DAX Modules and Dependencies DAX DAX- DAX- DAX-Java Javascript Cocoon dom4j Rhino Cocoon

DAX-Java

DAX-Java How to use it public class ElementCounter extends Transformer { Map elements = new Hashmap<String, Integer>(); public void processElement(Node context) { String name = context.getName(); if (elements.hasKey(name)) { elements.put(name, elements.get(name) + 1); } else { elements.put(name, 1); } } }

DAX-Java How to use it public class ElementCounter extends Transformer { Map elements = new Hashmap<String, Integer>(); @Path(quot;*quot;) //select all elements public void processElement(Node context) { String name = context.getName(); if (elements.hasKey(name)) { elements.put(name, elements.get(name) + 1); } else { elements.put(name, 1); } } }

DAX-Java How to use it public class SourceCounter extends Transformer { Map sources = new Hashmap<String, Integer>(); @Path(quot;img[@src]quot;) //select all elements public void processElement(Node context) { String name = this.valueOf(quot;@srcquot;); if (elements.hasKey(name)) { elements.put(name, elements.get(name) + 1); } else { elements.put(name, 1); } } }

DAX-Java How it works • Simple parsing algorithm: • traverse the DOM of the XML document • for each node, ﬁnd an annotated method • with matching XPath • execute this method • Just like XSLT's templates

DAX-Java vs XSLT DAX-Java XSLT @Path(quot;/foo/barquot;) Templates public void bar(Node context) <xsl:template match=quot;/foo/barquot;> Value-Of valueOf(quot;@barquot;) <xsl:value-of select=quot;@barquot; /> Apply- applyTemplates() <xsl:apply-templates /> Templates

DAX-Javascript

DAX-Javascript Why? • XSLT is ﬁne for transforming XML • but no side-effects possible • no access to external data model Input XSLT Output ? Model

DAX-Javascript Background • Map most important XSLT concepts to Javascript concepts XSLT Javascript <xsl:stylesheet> Stylesheet object template function of the Stylesheet <xsl:template> object applyTemplate function of the <xsl:apply-templates/> Stylesheet object copy function of the Stylesheet object <xsl:copy/> (with inlined body function)

DAX-Javascript How to use it <xsl:template match=quot;fooquot;> <bar> <xsl:comment>example code uses foo</xsl:comment> <xsl:apply-templates /> </bar> </xsl:template/> Stylesheet.template({match:quot;fooquot;}, function(node) { this.element(quot;barquot;, function(node) { this.comment(quot;example code uses fooquot;); this.applyTemplates(); }); });

DAX-Javascript How to use it <xsl:template match=quot;node()|@*quot;> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select=quot;node()|@*quot; /> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template/> Stylesheet.template({match:quot;node()|@*quot;}, function (node) { this.copy(function(node) { this.applyTemplates({select:quot;node()|@*quot;}) }); });

DAX-Javascript How it works • Uses Rhino Javascript Engine • full access to Java object model • allows side-effects when transforming XML • Parses the incoming XML stream • Finds and ﬁres matching functions

DAX-Cocoon

DAX-Cocoon How to use it <map:components> <map:transformers> <map:transformer name=quot;daxquot; src=quot;dax.cocoon.DAXTransformerquot; /> </map:transformers> </map:components>

DAX-Cocoon How to use it <map:match pattern=quot;/resource/*quot;> <map:select type=quot;request-methodquot;> <map:generate type=quot;streamquot; /> <map:when test=quot;PUTquot;> <map:transform type=quot;daxquot; src=quot;dax/res.jsquot;> <map:parameter name=quot;resquot; value=quot;{1}quot; /> </map:transform> </map:when> </map:select> </map:match>

DAX-Cocoon How to use it var resourcemanager = cocoon.getComponent(quot;resourcemanagerquot;); Stylesheet.template({match:quot;delquot;}, function(node) { var that = this; this.copy(function(node) { if (that.valueOf(quot;.quot;)==cocoon.parameters.res) { resourcemanager.delete(that.valueOf(quot;@nodequot;)) } this.applyTemplates({select:quot;node()|@*quot;}) }); });

DAX-Cocoon How it works • Implemented as a Cocoon Transformer • Pull in quot;cocoonquot; object as Flowscript does • Usage Scenario: REST Application • validate using DAX (e.g. by checking database) • transform using DAX (e.g by triggering actions) • save using DAX (e.g. by changing model)

DAX-Cocoon Open Questions • Caching • We do not know if a transformation has non-cacheable side-effects • Mixing DAX and XSLT • perhaps E4X is a way to conveniently embed XSLT • Not all XSLT concepts implemented (sorting)

How to go on? • Read more • http://www.asciiarmor.com/2005/03/03/introducing- dax-declarative-api-for-xml/ • https://www.mindquarry.org/wiki/dax/ • http://www.codeconsult.ch/bertrand/archives/ 000802.html • Download • http://releases.mindquarry.org/dax/ • (Maven artifacts available)

Thank you very much lars@trieloff.net For more information, see my weblog at http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblog/lars

http://weblogs.goshaky.com	24
http://feeds.feedburner.com	1
http://www.techgig.com	1

Dax Declarative Api For Xml

by Lars Trieloff

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

3 Embeds 26

Statistics

Dax Declarative Api For Xml Presentation Transcript