Now the XmlView would work for any web site which does escalate the security setting to use only own domain resources. So far it is almost any web site on interned.
What is new:It is not as efficient and scalable as XML though. JSON doubles the browser memory consumption, half of which reside in the JS VM; additional parser for JSON consumes extra CPU/time.
Is it possible to make a faster and smaller memory consumption implementation using JSON without XML?I guess not. XML reside in browser memory and is not a subject for JS limitations which will be in place for JSON. There is no multi-threaded(yet?) template transformation from JSON to HTML. Not to mention there is no way to render directly DOM by template engine besides XSLT.
Happy coding!
The one extra module appeared on XmlAspect.org. This is a browser button to make the web services visualization. Along with Web 2.0 methods implemented by client-side cross-browser XSLT rendering it is a great showcase for CSS3 capabilities. The collapsing and sub-branch selection is implemented by pure CSS without any JS.
While JSON fans have been claiming the XML presentation is ugly and not useful, I was happy with its default presentation as a collapsible tree in browser. But most of web services comprise the tabular kind of data. Which is more helpful when shown as a table. The sorting on all columns could help with usability. That is what the tool does: present tabular data as sortable table.Besides changing the sorting the URL will be adjusted by adding the sorting parameters into hash part. That will allow to share the URL with view parameters set.
As a tool for developer the cross-browser support will rely on audience interest. For now it is tested on current Chrome and FF.
The module is completely open sourced, feel free to use anywhere. Github given a great service where I am happy to use SVN on git repository.Happy coding!
