This is the source code for the site at https://xmlns.greystate.dk/ where I've hosted the schemas for some of my XML applications for a long time.
XMLSchemas are XML documents but can be quite difficult to "read", so I figured I could "extract" the human-understandable parts by rendering them a little simpler.
That's what the website does — If you peek through the code you'll probably discover a couple of things:
- It seems to have originated around April 2002
- It's written in Microsoft's JScript ASP variant
- The schemas are transformed to HTML using XSLT, because, of course
- The transformations are done using another legacy project of mine, XMLObject()
- It's using my
Server.Transfer()trick to hide the.asppart of the URLs, but keeping the logic in a single file (process.asp). - I was using a source code control system called RCS at the time
This is the beauty of the way namespace URIs have always been specified - there does not have to be a resource at the URI - it just has to be unique (within the scope it's supposed to be used).
This means that while I've decided to put a representation of them on their respective URLs (the HTTP version works fine as well - I'm not currently redirecting them), I can use HTTPS without breaking any applications that use them.
Let me know if there's something you'd like me to explain further - I might still remember :D
/Chriztian, December 2020