Including a page with custom tags

[Sreedhar Chintalapaty]

Title: Glacier

Another newbie question that I could not find an answer for in the archives.   Part of my web site needs to generate dynamic content based on database queries. I intend to write my own logicsheets to get that functionality (I am not using ESQL because I need to talk to my java model, not directly to the database ).   I used Bonebreaker application as the learning tool so far; my web page is divvied up into a few sections in terms of layout: Menu at the top Toolbar on the left side Content on the prime real estate To provide static content, I pass the name of the file to be shown in the request (e.g. http://<myAppBase>/current/welcome.html?show=content/current/featuredArticle). In the xsl style sheet which processes this (menupage.xsl in bonebreaker), I use the (pre-existing) xsl:copy-of call to just get everything from the static xml file featuredArticle.xml.   So far, this works fine.   Now, to provide the dynamic content, I put in a call to a custom tag in the featuredArticle.xml file, like so:     <singertags:get-name/>   The tag <singertags:get-name/> takes no parameters; it is just supposed to print "Elvis Presley".   I registered the tag file in cocoon.xconf. It seems to be loading fine (from what I see in core.log)   The trouble is: I don't know how to make cocoon actually process the tag. This has something to do with Sitemap, but I don't know what I should put in there. What I have now is this:   Sitemap: <map:match pattern="xsp/**">     <map:generate type="serverpages" src="{1}{requestQuery}"/>     <map:transform type="cinclude"/>     <map:serialize/> </map:match>   <map:match pattern="*/*.**">     <map:act type="request">         <map:parameter name="parameters" value="true"/>         <map:generate type="request" src="control/{../1}/{../2}.xml{requestQuery}"/>         <map:transform type="xslt" src="view/xsl/{../3}/content.xsl">             <map:parameter name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/>             <map:parameter name="tab" value="{../1}"/>             <map:parameter name="topic" value="{topic}"/>             <map:parameter name="subtopic" value="{../2}"/>             <map:parameter name="tabs" value="../../../control/config/tabs.xml"/>             <map:parameter name="topics" value="../../../control/config/{../1}.xml"/>             <map:parameter name="base-url" value="/cocoon/gvs"/>         </map:transform>         <map:transform type="xslt" src="view/xsl/{../3}/menupage.xsl">             <map:parameter name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/>             <map:parameter name="tab" value="{../1}"/>             <map:parameter name="topic" value="{topic}"/>             <map:parameter name="subtopic" value="{../2}"/>             <map:parameter name="request-url" value="../../../{show}.xml"/>             <map:parameter name="tabs" value="../../../control/config/tabs.xml"/>             <map:parameter name="topics" value="../../../control/config/{../1}.xml"/>             <map:parameter name="css-stylesheet" value="default.css"/>             <map:parameter name="base-url" value="/cocoon/gvs"/>         </map:transform>         <map:serialize/>     </map:act> </map:match>   Tag in the Logicsheet: <xsl:template match="singertags:get-name">     <xsp:expr>         Elvis Presley     </xsp:expr> </xsl:template> FeaturedArticle.xml: <xsp:page xmlns:xsp="http://apache.org/xsp" xmlns:singertags="http://gvs/singertags">     <page>         Singer Name: <singertags:get-name/>     </page> </xsp:page> Menupage.xsl: <!-- The following line prints non-tag stuff if <xsp:page> tags are removed from featuredArticle.xml --> <xsl:copy-of select="document($request-url)/page"/>   <!-- Does not work regardless: just sends this out in toto to the browser (which will ignore it) --> <cinclude:include src="xsp/{$request-url}"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="./article"/> The Problem: Instead of printing "Singer Name: Elvis Presley", it just prints nothing. If I take out the <xsp:page> tags from featuredArticle.xml, it prints "Singer Name:" and leaves a blank in place of the tag. Obviously I am doing something wrong (or not doing something) and this must be a fairly dumb question... I would appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction... (I try to compensate for my lack of originality with copying skills ;)) Best Regards, Sreedhar Chintalapaty __________________________________________________________________________________________ A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy - Joseph Campbell