Monday, July 10, 2006

 

Trouble with Technology


If you've been to jtsnake.com lately, you've seen that I'm pulling in the blog headlines through RSS feeds. As of now, the XML document is being parsed purely by PHP and being applied to an HTML template. But, I didn' write the PHP script, and it's a mess. I only wished to make minor modifications. So, naturallly I wanted more control and got an XSLT style sheet to transform the XML according to and wrote the PHP to do it. But, wouldn't you know it, my host, godaddy.com, doesn't support XSLT for their current deployment of PHP. So, I thought, well, to the next solution I go. And so I went. I got the client to determine which XSLT the XML file should use, but I could only get a version to work in IE, not Firefox. So then I finally wrote one in Java, uploaded that to the server (after a crazy time finding the write JAR file to compile my servlet), only to find out that my godaddy.com hosting account (the cheapest) doesn't have Java enabled. Argh! I need a good, free Java host. Good luck, Jake!

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