[Koha-devel] SVC templates

[Ian Walls]

...and the other places with XMLout are patron and item card creation, and
the Syndetics external service.  Dealing with those places another way
would reduce our dependency on XML::Simple by about half.

-Ian

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 13:15, Ian Walls <koha.sekjal at gmail.com> wrote:

> C4/ILSDI/Services.pm also uses XML::Simple to do output.  Strings are
> actually composed in the subroutines, making any changes to the schema a
> C4-editing patch.  Having an ILSDI template directory would serve us much
> better here, I think.
>
>
> -Ian
>
> 2012/4/11 Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz>
>
>> Op 11-04-12 23:31, Ian Walls schreef:
>> > Right now, the few web services we have all create their XML output
>> > using XML::Simple.  This is not the fastest parser in the world, so I've
>> > been looking to minimize/remove it's usage.
>>
>> I work with the maintainer of XML::Simple. I'm quite sure he wouldn't
>> object to me putting these words in his mouth: "Don't use XML::Simple,
>> move to something that does things properly. It's deprecated and a bad
>> idea outside of a very narrow set of circumstances."
>>
>> That's pretty much his advice whenever anyone brings it up.
>>
>> > Looking at it in /svc got me thinking:  perhaps we should be using
>> > T:T to generate our web services output instead.  This would have all
>> > the advantages of T:T, and allow us to reuse common portions text.
>>
>> I've done this for something else, and it's not super-great compared to
>> a real XML system, but it does work and works fairly well. Also, it's
>> very easy.
>>
>>
>> http://template-toolkit.org/docs/tutorial/Datafile.html#section_Producing_XML
>>
>> I don't see it there, but you could make a default filter that encoded
>> everything to XML entities.
>>
>> Robin.
>>
>>
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