Browser-based authoring (in XML)

[fuli42]

Hello!

My question is very general, so rather than a specific answer, I would appreciate even some pointers (websites, tutorials, books, etc.)

I would create a simple one field form. The author would write his notes in it, when submitted, the data is added to an XML database. (Then a XSL transformation, stored in a seperate XSLT file would generate the updated xhtml pages from that. )

Xalan Java (by the apache) group, even has some servlet samples for its Extensions.

I know nothing about servlets, and JSP. I want to set up a serverlet on my Apache server, but I have no idea how to start. I just want to achieve the above mentioned scenario, on a "hello world" level.

Any help is greatly appreciated,

thank you

Fuli

 

[petey]

Some technologies that can get you there are Java beans combined with JSTL tags (JSP Standard Tag Library). (Beans are just regular Java classes whose methods conform to a special naming convention, nothing more.) You can then do your hello world program without even writing any Java code. Also check out the O'Reilly books on both Servlets and JSPs. All these things are good starting points for investigation.

http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html

petey

http://www.drpeterjones.com/

 

[fuli42]

Thank you Petey!

I've just came back from the Computer school's Library where I've picked up an O'Reilly's Java servlet programming handbook. I guess it's not the latest edition, but at my level it's quite good.

Thanks again,

Fuli