Jeni's Musings

you might find some solution using Ant and continuous integration engines like Anthill pro… this is abuse of build systems to achieve ‘work’ … though it has worked for me well in the past when controlling pipelines of XML.

another approach might be using eXist XMLDB and having triggers on collections; each collection could represent a step in your workflow and when a document goes into there(or is updated) you could generate (xslt, xpath, xquery) some output (which could go to another collection and so on) … eXist is not really ready for prime time in its default configuration … I tend to wrap it up in a perl handler and block all access to it (via iptables)…. but very effective.

I have some significant experience with both these approaches and would be willing to answer questions.

cheers, Jim Fuller

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