Hi folks, This is a plea for more simple examples of how and when to use Cocoon. I've gone through the documentation for 2.0rc2 and get most of the details - I think. I have for example taken the slashdot news example and created a new page which displays news from my slashcode site http://news.DiverseBooks.com/diversebooks.xml What I'm missing is the big picture.
For instance I'm a bit worried by Cocoon's lack of a content management system so that document authors can add documents to the system in a structured and traceable way, but I suppose a separate one could be bolted on and use the file system as the interface between the two systems.... Anyway.... Take for example my problem which I am using to learn Cocoon. I have a bunch of photos of novelists which I am turning into a website and hopefully pdf booklet. (I am doing this for a literary non-profit organisation so do volunteer help :-) I have very little data at the moment other than the picture, location, approx date photo taken, who took the photo, copyright holder (typically the photographer), but in the future I'd like to link to a bibliographic database, link to reviews of their work (some of which are on my sites, but may also involve a wider list of reviews elsewhere) and so on. It seems natural to me to put all this info in an xml file, or files (plural) so that I can use xsl/xslt to create html pages, and fo/pdf pages for each author. My problem now is how to best structure this info. A lot of the info is specific to the photo - and at the moment I only have one photo per novelist. If I stick to one photo per novelist and one xml file per photo, I then have one xml file per page and I believe I can set this up in Cocoon2 with some fiddling of the sitemap file and one or two xsl files in the pipeline. But is that the right way about it? Should all the info be in seperate xml files or just one big one? (That would be harder on the sax parser presumably). How do I cope with the situation where I have more than one photo of the same novelist? Should I have xml files for each novelist, and xml files for each photo and use *both* of them in FileGenerators to create a page? How do I list the pages available? Would I have to create a separate list in a database or is there an easy way of indexing all the xml files.... presumably if there was just one xml database it would be easy to list all the novelists.... Newbie advice welcome. Alex McLintock --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
