Hi All
I have a question regarding the use and purpose of XSP. I believe that XSP is an attempt to separate content/logic from presentation, and I believe it's possible to use it in this way. However, in many of the samples (such as results-dept.xsp below, found in the tutorial) XSP is used to retrieve XML from a database and wrap it in some sort of pseudo-html, which is then processed by a logicsheet to produce proper HTML. To me this defeats the whole purpose of XSP. The XSP below mixes content and presentation, and if it contained <xsp:logic> sections it would be even worse, mixing content, logic and presentation. My thoughts are that, as the XSP is a generator it should generate XML in some suitable form. If logic is needed within the XSP dynamic tags can be used and translated using a logicsheet (or made part of XSP if they are not resuable). However, the actual presentation of this XML should be left to a stylesheet. I would really appreciate your comments and thoughts on this as we are trying to implement multiple projects here using Cocoon and want to use a consistent, best-practise approach. Thanks for your time :-) Michael <xsp:page xmlns:xsp="http://apache.org/xsp"; xmlns:xsp-request="http://apache.org/xsp/request/2.0"; xmlns:esql="http://apache.org/cocoon/SQL/v2";> <document> <header> <title>Search Results</title> </header> <body> <s1 title="Department Search Results"> <p> You can edit a department by clicking on the "edit" button, and you can delete a department by clicking on the "delete" button. </p> <esql:connection> <esql:pool>personnel</esql:pool> <esql:execute-query> <esql:query> SELECT id, name FROM department WHERE name LIKE <esql:parameter>%<xsp-request:get-parameter name="name"/>%</esql:parameter> ORDER BY name </esql:query> <esql:results> <esql:row-results> <s2> <xsp:attribute name="title"><esql:get-string column="name"/></xsp:attribute> <form handler="edit-dept.html"> <xsp:attribute name="name"><esql:get-string column="id"/></xsp:attribute> <p> <parameter name="id"> <xsp:attribute name="value"><esql:get-string column="id"/></xsp:attribute> </parameter> <submit name="Edit Department"/><submit name="Delete Department"/> </p> </form> </s2> </esql:row-results> </esql:results> <esql:no-results> <p> We could find any departments that matched your search criteria of "<xsp-request:get-parameter name="name"/>". <link href="search-dept.html">Go back and try again?</link> </p> </esql:no-results> </esql:execute-query> </esql:connection> </s1> </body> </document> </xsp:page> ----------------------------------------------- Michael Edge Global Markets Technology Institutional Client Group Phone: +44 (0) 20 7545 3204 Fax : +44 (0) 20 7545 1559 Internet email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
