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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Complexity

Mark Baker:
Wow, that's pretty complex coding for such a simple task, no? I'd opt for java.net (bugs, quirks, and all), or other Java client HTTP APIs (the two HTTPClient projects come to mind).
Who needs Java? A little XSLT will do the trick nicely.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict" xmlns:yn="urn:yahoo:yn">
<xsl:output 
  method="xml" 
  encoding="utf-8" 
  indent="yes" 
  doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
  doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" 
  media-type="text/html" 
  omit-xml-declaration='yes' 
 />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Search Results</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Search results</h2>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="document('http://api.search.yahoo.com:80/NewsSearchService/V1/newsSearch?appid=jaxws_restful_sample&type=all&results=10&sort=date&language=en&query=java')/*"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="yn:Result">
    <a href="{yn:ClickUrl}"><xsl:value-of select="yn:Title"/></a><br/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

posted by Chris at Thursday, January 19, 2006 | 1 comments

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