All, I hope this won't be considered an abuse of this mailing list, but I think many Cocoon enthusiasts will be interested in the technologies that we have developed at my company, Orbeon, namely the concepts of XML processors and XML pipelines as well as XPL, an XML Pipeline Definition Language. An introduction to those technologies is available in a technical white paper available here:
http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/whitepaper.xhtml XPL is a simple, declarative, implementation-agnostic language that allows defining XML pipelines of arbitrary complexity. Those who are already familiar with the Cocoon sitemap will understand the concepts very quickly, but XPL takes things to the next level and includes built-in conditionals, teeing, aggregation, XPointer support, validation (for example with W3C schema and Relax NG), and debugging support. It is also very modular because XPL is itself interpreted by an XML processor that can be part of another pipeline. It is therefore possible to combine XML pipelines at will. We just released version 1.0 of OXF, which comes with the first implementation of XPL and a collection of XML processors including support for XSLT, SQL, XForms, EJB, Web services, etc. Our documentation is available online, so if you want to get a better idea of how Cocoon and OXF compare, feel free to have a look: http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/documentation/index.html We also have a FAQ that mentions Cocoon: http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/faq.xhtml OXF is not open source as of now, but we are open source lovers and we are evaluating the pros and cons of open sourcing it, or parts of it. For now, free evaluation versions can be downloaded. I will here state the obvious by pointing out that although there are functional similarities between Cocoon and OXF, the latter was written entirely from scratch. Oh, and for what it's worth, most of our Web site is still built with Cocoon! -Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
