A web toolkit for OCaml (logging, RSS, etc)

A web toolkit for OCaml (logging, RSS, etc)

[Joel Reymont]

Folks,

My forays into binding OCaml to Ruby have failed and I'm thinking  
about going all OCaml.

Assuming that I'm running naked nethttpd as my web server, how should  
I implement logging of HTTP requests to disk (a-la Apache)? Is this  
something that exists somewhere?

Also, what XML package for OCaml is the easiest for publishing RSS  
and parsing XHTML?

I looked at several possible options this week. On the one hand, Alex  
Baretta graciously provided me with source code for AS/XCaml which I  
found overwhelmingly complex and I totally dislike how OCaml code is  
embedded in Ocsigen's templates. On the other hand, I managed to get  
mod_caml up and running and compile ocamlnet.

I'm thinking of pairing Bruno De Fraine's "Toy implementation of  
Zope's TAL" [1] with nethttpd and running my site on that. As an  
alternative, I may be able to plug Bruno's templates into mod_caml or  
Ocsigen.

I'm looking for advice here.

	Thanks in advance, Joel

[1] http://tinyurl.com/28xvj8

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Re: [Caml-list] A web toolkit for OCaml (logging, RSS, etc)

[Jon Harrop]

On Friday 30 March 2007 00:37, Joel Reymont wrote:
> My forays into binding OCaml to Ruby have failed and I'm thinking
> about going all OCaml.

I'd go for separate programs with message communication.

> Assuming that I'm running naked nethttpd as my web server, how should
> I implement logging of HTTP requests to disk (a-la Apache)? Is this
> something that exists somewhere?

I believe there are bindings for things like log4 but I can't remember where.

> Also, what XML package for OCaml is the easiest for publishing RSS
> and parsing XHTML?

I've only ever used XML-Light. It is great when it works but it doesn't handle 
things like incremental parsing and whitespace. I believe Gerd's XML 
libraries are more compliant but harder to use.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists

Re: [Caml-list] A web toolkit for OCaml (logging, RSS, etc)

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:37:16AM +0100, Joel Reymont wrote:
> Also, what XML package for OCaml is the easiest for publishing RSS  
> and parsing XHTML?

COCANWIKI (very recent versions) use OCamlRSS and xml-light.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat