Unfolded Mind

Klortho as been a work-in-progress in my mind since 2004 or so, but nothing beyond the creation of a sourceforge project has really happened with it. Well, I finally got around to making something happen: I made a small perl fastcgi script for doing automatic XSLT transforms, and added some .htaccess/mod_rewrite plumbing to my www.unfoldedmind.com account. (It’s on a shared host where I can’t use mod_transform the way I wanted to). after that, I was able to whip up a rudimentary main template, and add a couple xml pages, with their own stylesheets.

There is not much to see on the surface at present, and there may not be for a while, but I’m pleased to have enough of a scaffold in place to start working on the harder parts.

These harder parts include:

• Getting the fastcgi to pass GET, POST and COOKIE data to the underlying request
• Building data models with Berkely DB/XML
• Getting Haskell and Lisp to talk to the C++ API for BDB/XML
• Learning enough Haskell and Lisp to make working this way fun, and not frustrating

Anyone want to help?