Sorry about the cross post - I'm not sure which list this is most applicable to as it could involve enhancements to C2.
I am used to using XML for providing application level config information. What I am wondering is what the concensus is for best practice when handling these with C2 - particuarly when wanted to transform these files to extra key data. For example: Take a basic content management app. Users enter data into forms which store this in a db. There are then multiple ways of rendering the data. To save hassle with a db I use an XML file to provide the config for each of the renderers. I then want to do something like provide a list of renderers to the user so they can pick what one they want to render their data. I have an XML file that has the page data in, which I need to merge the a list of the renderers (extracted from the config file) into. I could do an XInclude but that would give me at best specfic config elements in a form that does not match the dtd/schema of the page. This could be resolved by multi step transforming of this in the pipeline. Sounds OK to me but.... Do I not *really* want to transform the config file and include the results of that transformation? Even more I might really want to have multiple transformations going on - e.g. on to build an optomised tree and then another to transform to my page dtd/schema. I can write a logicsheet that does this. Perhaps make it generic as well. To me it is almost like an extended XInclude where you can apply transformations before the include. Another thought is that the sitemap provides the basic functionality for this (multi part transformations, xinclude etc) but only (I think) in request/response scenario, not where this type of function is called within page logic. Tis a similar thing to included xsps inside one another... The whole point of this tome is: - am I missing something - are there other (better) ways of doing this? - if not is my suggestion OK? - I can write and submit a solution but I just want to make sure it solves the problem in the best way possible. Thoughts? jez _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
