On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:45:56 +0100, Gianugo Rabellino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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." Very good, +1 from me! Regards, -- Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://orion.rgv.hp.com/ (inside HP's firewall only) http://sourceforge.net/users/ovidiu/ (my SourceForge page) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/ (GNU, Emacs, other stuff) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
