[lug] [OT] (X)emacs mode for xslt?

[rm at fabula.de]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:15:03PM -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
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> >Well, my customer switched from a static-render model (a _very_ expensive
> >"commercial" solution) over to live rendering -- it makes the workflow
> >so much easier for all involved parties. Rendering of a weeks edition
> >took several hours (on a Sun Enterprise box) ....
> >Keeping a single "master version" of an article was one of the goals
> >for the new system (sometimes the editor in charge _has_ to be shure
> >that an article got changed everywhere on the website :-/
> >
> What would be ideal might be a cache system (not in the sense of browser 
> based cache) where the server renders the static page the first time it 
> is called (to a private file), creating the content once; then if the 
> static page currently in residence on the server is up to date at the 
> moment of a page hit, it would simply cat the static page to the hit 
> request. If the page is altered only once per week, it would seem 
> efficient to not generate it every single hit. Something like a time 
> stamp change or MD5 change on the XML side could be used as a cache 
> regeneration trigger.

A good web cache like Squid will do that -- as long as you configure
your server to send correct modified-since answers ...
I toyed with such a solution for a while (with a modified squid that
got recache instructions every time a resource was modified in the
content management system) but after seeing the performance we get
with the current system it wasn't worth the time (and extra administrative
complication that such a setup would generate - more components means
more possible points of failure). Our limiting factor seems to be the
number of parallel processes (and resources like file descriptors) -- 
i had to patch the kernel to fix that.

  Ralf

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> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com
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