FROST Clients

XSL Stylesheets

Because of the design, a simple XSL stylesheet can serve as the client:

1. The directory level search returns OpenSearch Description Documents (or links to same)
2. The OSDD include a stylesheet, which...
3. ...renders the OSDD In the browser as a search form

Example Stylesheets

• frost.xsl: Ugly, but functional, at least on Safari. Errors in Firefox 3.5, though.

Let's use this space to gradually improve the stylesheets to support this...

Drupal Aggregation

See Rahul Ramachandran's SAM/Talkoot Data Search module.

Perl Reference / Test Implementation

Short Perl script that can be used to verify a server works with the ESIP conventions: esip_fedsearch.pl