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A side project of mine, http://xml-qstat.org has a new website and (finally!) an accessible SVN code repository for downloading the package. There are still things (such as support for IE browsers) that I’d like to add before a real 1.0 release though. Truth be told the real reason for this post was to have an initial article tagged with the phrase ’xml-qstat’. The beautiful Typo-powered publishing engine running this website can dynamically construct RSS and ATOM syndication feeds based on any article category or tag. Creating the xmlqstat tag and posting news under it results in a quick and dirty way to always have an updated xml-qstat news RSS feed without having to code such features into the xml-qstat.org website.

xml-qstat is an attempt to do something useful with the XML status information that Grid Engine is now able to produce. At it’s heart, xml-qstat consists of a collection of stylesheets written in XSL. The stylesheets can be used with a XSLT transformation engine to change raw Grid Engine XML data into convenient formats such as XHTML and RSS. Once the grid data has been manipulated into XHTML we can then apply other web technologies such as CSS, DHTML and JavaScript to create fairly sophisticated web based tools for Grid Engine status reporting and monitoring. The Apache Cocoon framework supplies the XML transformation and web publishing engine.