Here's my +1. It should also go our default page at the top (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon2).
Thanks, dims --- giacomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > > > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > > > > Now, I'd be *VERY* happy to pass over the hand to somebody else who is > > > willing to keep the project entry alive and not vegetating as it is > > > right now. > > > > > > This should be done along with Cocoon 2.0 final to show the renewed > > > development life of this project. > > > > > > What do you think? any committer volunteering for this? > > > > I think that Carsten is the right man for the job and that he's right > > when he says that this task should be in the "release manager" hands. > > > > As a side note, I must confess that I don't like that much the "About" > > part, I think that it can and should be rephrased to reflect what Cocoon > > really is. > > > > This is the original content: > > > > About: Cocoon is a pure Java publishing framework servlet that relies on > > DOM, SAX, XML, and XSL to provide web content. Web content generation is > > mostly based on HTML. Cocoons changes this view allowing content to be > > written in XML, style on XSL stylesheets and logic in another XSL > > stylesheet that converts the whole thing to the XSP namespace. This > > allows the complete separation of the three layers used to create > > content. The Cocoon framework creates web content by processing these > > layers with the ability to create, for example, valid HTML as output. > > > > I see at least the following issues with it: > > > > 1. Cocoon is not a servlet, this is severely limiting the power of Cocoon. > > > > 2. "Web content generation is mostly based on HTML"??? 'nuff said... > > > > 3. "Cocoons changes this view allowing content to be written in XML, > > style on XSL stylesheets and logic in another XSL stylesheet that > > converts the whole thing to the XSP namespace". Ugly, to say the least. > > > > I think that such description is poor, wrong and troublesome. I think > > also that it's worth the effort to spend some time investigating juicy > > alternatives that might be attractive to newcomers and people willing to > > know what Cocoon is. The same snippet should be placed in the project > > home page in place of the negative presentation that it's present now. > > > > Here is a small suggestion for a change: > > > > "Apache Cocoon is a XML publishing framework leveraging the power of the > > latest XML technologies. Designed for performance and scalability around > > the SAX event model, Cocoon offers a flexible and powerful environment > > based on the separation of concerns between content, logic and style and > > on a central configuration file which drives the whole processing. > > Cocoon is able to interact with most data sources (from filesystems to > > RDBMS, from LDAP to native XML databases) and to serve the content to > > different devices in different formats (HTML, WML, PDF, SVG, RTF just to > > name a few). Cocoon can be used both as a servlet or in a standalone > > fashion." > > Awesome, +1!! > > Giacomo > > > > > Please, consider this a quick note written in five minutes, and feel > > free to elaborate on it, steal from it or just throw it away. But > > please, let's change that "About" snippet ASAP :) > > > > Ciao, > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://jguru.com/dims/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
