> From: Christoph Henrici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I have been studying, testing and playing around with cocoon in the > last few days as a newcomer : i am greatly impressed with what ease with > cocoon "pipelines" arbrary data sources can be "chained" to a result > target: a very powerful paradigm (pipe) applied in a powerful context > (http) by using great technology (xml, xlst). In context of the > development of a web based application with requirements for a fairly > generic mechanism for the dynamic personlization of webpages in terms of > content and style the following questions below arised. Maybe they stem > from the fact, that i still missed a couple of aspect and points, maybe > the requirement or idea is just not thought through enough, anyway: > > a. Is it possible to "compose" pipelines and having the composed > pipeline beeing processing bottom-up and the whole beeing rendered for > example as html: A compostion of tables within table, frames within > frame etc., where the content of the "elementary" pipelines are > dyanmic, taking for examples data from the databases. I am aware that > the aggregation <map:aggregate> mechansim provides a somewhat similiar > construction, only the composition could also be composed of aggregations.
I'm not sure I understood you correctly... But, if you want to aggregate resources and do not know at the moment of writing sitemap what to aggregate - then you can use "include" capabilities of Cocoon. It is possible to do: <map:generate/> to generate document with include tags (this can be from database), <map:transform type="cinclude"/> (or xinclude) - processed include tags and includes content from the sources mentioned in these tags, <map:serialize/> serializes results. See http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/userdocs/transformers/transformers.html for documentation on xinclude and cinclude transformers. > b. Is it possible the change the sitemap or more specifically the > piplines configuration ( <map:pipelines>) dynamically. No, this is not possible. Regards, Vadim --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
