> From: Noah Mittman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> Well, that's it. I'm almost ready to scrap Cocoon.
> 
> All I want to do is generate a simple HTML page that when requested
> does a little Java code first using some request parameters and
> values from the XML it's being generated from. I need to do this in
> many little ways: sending email, writing to a log, accessing
> services and sending data.
> 
> Like:
> 
> source.xml:
>       <foo id="100">
>               <bar>Hello</bar>
>       <foo>
> 
> write.xsl?write=test (submitted via form):
>       <xsl:param name="test"/>
>       <xsl:template match="foo">
>               <html>
>               <xsp:logic>
>                       SpecialLogger logger = new
SpecialLogger(<xsl:value-of
> select="@id"/>);
>                       if (logger.writeThis("<xsl:value-of
select="$test"/>")) {
>                               <body>
>                                       <xsl:value-of select="bar"/>
worked!
>                                       <!-- body content version A -->
>                               </body>
>                       } else {
>                               <body>
>                                       <xsl:value-of select="bar"/>
didn't work
>                                       <!-- body content version B -->
>                               </body>
>                       }
>               <xsp:logic>
>               </html>
>       </xsl:template>
> 
> + ~20 other xsl files that spit out frames based on the same XML
> but only require barebones XSLT
> 
> This is important because this runs in a framed environment where
> all frames' HTML use the same XML as source, and I don't want to
> have any special code in the XML because there will be many of
> these sources soon, and it only needs to execute this code for this
> *one* transformation.
> 
> The only way I have gotten this to work is to create a pipeline
> that turns the XML into an XSP and have the real URL match to a
> cocoon:/ protocol to generate that XML-to-XSP pipeline. While this
> works, it creates a class that WILL NOT RECOMPILE no matter how
> much the referenced XML changes until I restart Cocoon or manually
> delete it, which is unacceptable.

Advice: download latest cocoon (you did not specify in the email what
version you are using) and try http://localhost:8080/cocoon/sub/
examples.

Regards,
Vadim

> 
> It is absolutely imperative that I be able to accomplish this
> without adding any Java classes--I just won't have the access
> needed to do this.
> 
> There MUST be a way!



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