(sorry for this late reply: my MX host changed its IP so I had huge email problems lately).
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >>with an XPath-enabled DirectoryGenerator wich uses the X-pointerish >>syntax already implemented in the XMLDB stuff. >> > > Way cool, I badly needed this for Forrest :) Great, hope it will help you. :-) >>1. XPathProcessor has been migrated to Avalon (release, not scratchpad) >>and AFAIK the Avalon version is the only one that will be maintained in >>the future, so I have used >>org.apache.avalon.excalibur.xml.xpath.XPathProcessor in my code; >>cocoon.roles, however, still points to the Cocoon implementation so, if >>committed, my code would not work unless we change cocoon.roles too. I >>think that this shouldn't bring any problem. > > I'm really agnostic to this. I fully trust Carsten's judgement. I'll wait until tomorrow then I'll commit a first version using the cocoon XPath interface. > Should we start shipping XIndice with Cocoon? (I know Cocoon is already > big enough, but by making it easier to people to assemble things is the > way to go... at least until we have an apt-get-like thing for java. > still would like avalon to provide that... but it will take some time to > get people to agree on it :( I don't know... the required jars sum up to 2.5MB, it's quite a high load as of now, yet I see from the user list (both Cocoon and XIndice) that there is a growing interest in making the two work together. Besides, XIndice has a quirk today: the openorb jars must be installed in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. I was starting to play with Kimbro's file system based RI: if I can make it work we will have a sample XML:DB running right inside of the dist like HSQLDB does at the price of a few KB. How about it? >>3. It might be the case to add this feature not as another generator but >>as an option to DirectoryGenerator itself (and, why not to FileGenerator > I'm sure users will drive the evolution of it. > > And count me as a user in this case :) Gosh. Got to pull out the absbestos underwear then ;-P Ciao, -- Gianugo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
