On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm a newborn axkitten who are seeking a new home after having worked > with Cocoon for three months and given up... They're not paying too > much attention to documentation over there, and the implementation > seems rather fragile. Basically, what I went there for was a strict > separation of logic from the rest, and a decoupling of site URLs from > the underlying file system of the server machine. It took me a long > time to realize that Axkit puts a lot more into their XSP than Cocoon > does, that's pretty much the reason why it took me so long to come > over... :-) > > Anyway, in Barrie's great tutorial on "XSP, Taglibs and Pipelines", he > suggests that one should only use ESQL for small applications, and > rather use DBI. I've googled around, but I haven't found anything that > details this. So I wondered if you have any pointers for a little > axkitten looking cutely at you from the basket...? :-)
Basically the difference is that in AxKit (unlike Cocoon) it's absolutely trivial to write a taglib. So it's better to hide your database access behind a taglib if you can, rather than directly putting the SQL in your XSP pages. There's a cool slide in [1] that details someone's XSP page that basically hides an enormous amount of detail behind two tags. That's the idea. [1] http://axkit.org/docs/presentations/tpc2002/axkit.axp/axkit.pdf -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:-> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
