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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Much though I have to love json, this does seem to be a case where
maintaining an xml stylesheet is the cleanest separation of form and
content.

What about adding an xml processing instruction to the xml like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="<some base url>/dxf2html.xsl"?><document>
  ...</document>


This will have no effect on consuming the xml normally (except for making
it one line longer) but will allow a browser to render it nicely.

Of course dxf2html.xsl would have to be maintained.  It could be provided
by an app.  Or the whole url could be just a system setting.  Then if the
setting exists the processing instruction is emitted, if not then its not.
 Or there is a basic functionality which can be overridden by an app ...


On 14 July 2014 05:19, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Of course we could do that, but that would take away part of the
> restfulness of the API. I don't think we should change the way our links
> works, just because a plugin supports making http://* into real links. I
> understand that it is a bit harder to browse the API right now, but that
> should be fixed soon. We don't have to wait for 2.17 to be released for
> this, it could easily live as an external app, it shouldn't take long to
> develop something like that.
>
> --
> Morten
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> So you can't just add .json to these links?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We do expose JSON as the default, if you send header "Accept: */*" that
>>> would return a JSON result. Problem is that the browser is usually sending
>>> something like "Accept: text/html, application/xml, ....." so since it has
>>> no match for text/html, it will go to application/xml.
>>>
>>> We are hoping to provide an API browser app for 2.17.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Morten
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A shortcut to making an app would be if we exposed .json by default
>>>> instead of XML:
>>>>
>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/resources.json has nicely clickable
>>>> links if the user has something like JSONView installed:
>>>>
>>>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc
>>>>
>>>> Knut
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <
>>>> larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> yes its intentional. The HTML templates were static and too much
>>>>> hassle to keep in synch with the model.
>>>>>
>>>>> App idea: make an app that renders a nice, linked HTML-view for all
>>>>> resources based on the json resources.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lars
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Or is there just a missing style file:
>>>>>> This XML file does not appear to have any style information
>>>>>> associated with it
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> When I browse the API in 2.16, I seem to get XM
>>>>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/resources
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> instead of HTML, like it was in 2.15
>>>>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/resources
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this intentional?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Knut Staring
>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>> +4791880522
>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Knut Staring
>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>> +4791880522
>> http://dhis2.org
>>
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