Alright, I have a very

Alright, I have a very basic commenting system put together. It’s mostly XML/XSLT files but I have one CGI script which does the actual saving of the comments. I’m not happy with the fact that I had to throw together a perl script to do it. I wanted to have the server side process the forms with Java either in the form of servlets, or preferably XSP but I have been daunted by the various XML parsers for Java. Well that’s not entirely true, I wanted something smaller than a full blown DOM implementation and that worked on Java 1.1 which is apparently a pretty tall order.

I still have to manually add a line of XML on my server in order to turn commenting on for a blog entry but I’ll fix that tomorrow. Also I will make it look pretty once I finish customizing the XML/XSLT files. That part is easy. Dammit I want to save comments using XSP I’ve got to figure out an easy to way to handle XML in Java.

The long and short of this is that I have a rudimentary commenting capability