Since your requirement is only "create an HTML report from data stored in a database"
I guess I'd suggest not creating an XML document in memory as that can be a bit of a
space hog and inefficient. I'd prefer sticking with the SAX model that C2 uses.
So in that spirit, I'd recommend this:
1) either:
* Write an XSP page (which is a generator) with esql tags in it to read from
the database and then generate whatever xml output you need
or
* Write an XML document with a sql query in it and then run the SQL
transformer against it to read from the database
2) run a stylesheet on the results to transform the xml into html
3) serialize as HTML
If you do absolutely have to create an XML document in memory, that can be dealt with
too. You can write an XSP page to handle writing XML documents/fragments to the
Cocoon pipeline.
If I haven't answered your question well, then please clarify a bit more what you're
looking for.
DR
At 04:49 PM 12/20/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Cocooners,
>I'd like to create an HTML report from data stored in a database.
>If I create an XML document in memory, how do I go about having it translated with
>Cocoon2 to my HTML report?
>Do I need to create a generator, or can I just add something to the sitemap so that
>the source for the XML is not a file, but an object in memory? Do I need to use a
>SAX parser or can I use a DOM parser too?
>Can anybody direct me in the right direction please?
>Thanks,
>Bert
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