basexhttp and static content

Thank you Michael and Christian.

db:retrieve and the XQuery framework look quite interesting and I see how they could work.

I had in mind something more lightweight. I've done some examples using BaseX with AgenceXML XSLTForms, which is a 100% in-browser implementation of XForms that needs to be served up as static content.

Here's what I mean:

1. Change BaseXHTTPServer so that it tells Jetty about a directory for static resources; Jetty already knows how to handle this. 2. Create an "xsltforms" directory and unzip XSLTForms into it. 3. Create an application directory, and put the XHTML+XForms XML file (and associated CSS) into that directory.

I've attached a couple of git patches that enable #1 above, just as an example of what I mean. They enable the command-line option "-x <directory>" and provide help text for it.

I've tried this and it works great with the current git version of basex, after applying the two attached patches to basex and basex-api: cd basex mkdir static cd static mkdir xsltforms; pushd xsltforms; unzip /path/to/xsltforms.zip; popd mkdir mypage; pushd mypage; cp /path/to/mypage/index.xml .; popd ./bin/basexhttp -x static &

Please consider adding a quick deploy test facility like this to the BaseXHTTPServer.

Leigh.

Dear Leigh,

I've looked at your patch, and I've modified the HTTP server start class to use the directory addressed by HTTPPATH as Jetty root directory [1]. As Michael mentioned, we might soon extend this solution, so that XQuery files, which are stored in this directory, can be directly evaluated (but I remember well that, for now, you're mainly interested in static resources).

By the way: if the HTTP server is running, you can easily embed database resources into a page, by linking them from the static pages, or reference dynamic pages. Examples:

Hope this helps, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Releases