Transformation a go go	September 18, 2002

Files used are available at http://www.gregorycosmohaun.com/2002/ant/ 
(except my key has been removed from googlerequest.xml)

Where does dynamic content get processed?
	Process on Client, as pushed by Macromedia, Microsoft?
	Process on Server, as pushed Application server vendors?
	Process at author-time or periodically with build system
XML									http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006
	data vs. presentation
		resume in HTML vs. xml
	well-formed vs. valid
		drag to IE to test well-formedness
		xml chunks are called "nodes"
Ant									http://jakarta.apache.org/ant 
	Apache Group
	java-based truly cross-platform		
	use as build tool
	Build file format, explanation of targets, tasks, and filesets
	Copy Task demo
	Copy Task with wild card
	Delete Task
	Replace Task
	XSLT Task
XSLT								http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html
	simple resume xml to xhtml		http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/
		xhtml is most importantly well-formed xml
	template - driven (declarative rather than procedural;
		 i.e. more about what to get done than how to do it)
	<xsl:template > and <xsl:value-of>
	XPATH language for finding any node within an xml doc (like directory paths).
	XPATH samples 
	client-side transformation to HTML (bad idea)
	HTTP Task
SOAP and Google 					http://www.google.com/apis/	
									http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
	Link:www.cenquest.com in normal HTML and as a soap return
Putting it together
	Ant transformations 
		soap to linklist
		linklist to html
		linklist to word html
		linklist to wml
	Beyond XML
	How tasks allow Ant to control software
		Flash:javaswf2				http://www.anotherbigidea.com/javaswf/
			soap to swf
		JPEG: 
			linklist to SVG
			Batik 					http://xml.apache.org/batik/
				SVG to JPEG, GIF, TIFF
		XSL:FO  
		soap to XSL:FO	
		FOP  						http://xml.apache.org/fop
			XSL:FO to PDF
Use Anthill for automatic building and timestamping source control
xml benefits
	metadata and self-documenting content
How Cenquest uses these technologies