22 Feb 2003 kwoo   » (Journeyer)

Barter

I have started a new project called Barter. It will be an on-line, community-based bartering system, implemented as Ruby CGI scripts with HTML templates. I plan to migrate the templates to XML as soon as I understand XSLT.

Barter is kind of a "warm-up" project for another project. The other project is much more complex, and I think I'll save time in the long run if I pull off a simple project to learn XSLT and beef up my Ruby skills rather than try to jump right in to the complex one.

Blister

Though there are now a few templates and some simple code written, I'm beginning to see that this is going to turn out to be a rather complex project. I have decided to develop Barter as a way of getting familiar with XSLT and Ruby, both of which I intend to use in Blister.

So far I have found two reasonable-looking XSLT toolkits -- Sablotron and Xalan/Xerces. I'll have to do a little bit of playing with them to figure out which one I get along with better.

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