How to make a gnocchi transformation
Although it’s somtimes a chore, I love making gnocchi and love even more to devour them with a light bolognese sauce, cheese and olive oil. So I thought, as well as sharing the simple yet delicious recipe my great-grandmother passed down to me, I would attempt to devise a format for dishing out recipe data in XML. Logical, no?
I use XSL to doll up the XML data mostly to keep it relatively platform indepedent, that is, no PHP or JavaScript, but of course a XSL parser wouldn’t hurt of course. For a recipes application however, using simpleXML and some Ajax magic would go down as well as these floury balls of joy do with a crisp verdelho.
There are some fantastic recipe sites and books available but alas I didn’t spend much time researching the market. I’d rather be eating. Rather it was a quick and dirty way of providing the means to share my love of food and be a complete nerd at the same time.
So if you like traditional Italian food and don’t mind getting your hands dirty in flour and XML, dig in and mangiati quanto vuoi! 
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
If we applied the infinite monkey theorem to crappy data interchange formats we’d probably come up with something as bad as XML.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
There are not enough monkey brains in the world to do the processing required for such a feat.
Oh ok, I’ll output a JSON object just for you.