vgheo / git-serve-xml

Experiment with serving xml+xsl form a git repo by a web server

#Functional test - serve html/xml/xsl files from a git repo using http

gitweb

• ISSUE: URLs used to acces files are not hierarchical - so releative links cannot be resolved

gitlist

v0.5.0

• DOES have hierarchical URLS - relative links are resolved

• ISSUE- implementation serves raw files with http header content-type:text/plain

SOL1. Patch gitlist implementation - force to text/xml

• see patch

• WORKS for XML+XSL

  • XHTML (which is XML)

• limitation : ALL files are handled as xml => html files (non-xhtml) are displayed as xml tree (no stylesheed) => all non-xml text files result in errors (invalid xml)

• ALL RAW files shall be

  • served with Content-type:text/xml
  • in browser - rendered as XML
    • XSL transform to x/html supported
    • static xhtml supported

####Demo:

• Supported:
  • t.xml
  • t2.xml
  • cds.xml
• Not supported:
  • t.html
  • t2.html
  • README.md

SOL2. Feature request to gitlist

See request.

Request on gitlist support list to impelment proper content-type handling, esp. for xml files.

• VAR1 - hard-code xml extension -> text/xml
• VAR2 - use design from gitweb
  • uses system-wide mime type - extension mapping