[XML-SIG] Announcing maki

[Sam Brauer]

I have just made the first release of a project I have been working on for
the past couple of months.
The project's name is 'maki'.  To quote from the manual:

"The purpose of maki is to serve XML files via the web. A web developer
can specify that the XML data be processed or transformed through any
number of steps. Each step is either a stylesheet transformation or a
custom process. A processor that evaluates embedded Python code is
included. The output of each step is passed as the input to the next step
(similar to a Unix pipe). Additionally, the output of each processor step
can be cached for a user-specified time period. All configuration is in a
central XML file that specifies rules based on matching paths against
regular expressions."

maki relies on Python2, Apache, 4Suite, and mod_python.  It also
supports the use of Sablotron and Sab-pyth for XSLT (these are optional,
since maki uses 4xslt as the default XSLT transformer).

maki is currently in the alpha stage (fully functional, but in need of
community criticism and real-world testing).  I would very much welcome
any feedback.

If you're interested, take a look at http://maki.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,
Sam

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Sam Brauer : Systems Programmer : sam@webslingerZ.com