Had anyone heard of anything similar to this?

This sounds like it might have some overlap with Martin Fowler's exploratory work on Information System Architecture.

His section on Organizing the Web Server talks about something called a TransformView, which uses XSLT to build chains of XML-to-XML transformations, ending with an XML-to-HTML transformation.

Fowler has some definite opinions on Beans. It's worth reading through his work to get those opinions in his own words. He comes at them from a very pragmatic angle.

And even though he's working in Java, many of his architectural ideas map well to Perl.

In reply to Re: Potental project - Perl Beads? by dws
in thread Potential project - Perl Beads? by Masem

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