Hi,
Given your questions, I wonder if cocoon is necessary, and in fact, your
expectations. Cocoon s overkill for many things people use it for... Why do you
want to publish to a binary format? Why not simple HTML? Wouldn't that give your
users more/better access to your information?
What you are asking for is pretty simple. In fact, I would give free access to
hiking groups (especially those documenting the PCT, CDT, AT). If there are
similar things in Europe (given your name) I would support that too. I would
probably write the stylesheets if your trail is long (not interested in short
hikes).
Let me know if I can help.
Robert Koberg
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415-615-9079
San Francisco
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Mengué [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 4:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Using the Cocoon pipeline outside web apps
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a project that will generate OpenOffice.org document from
> data extracted from a database. Our aim is to automatise the publishing of
> the program of hikes for my hikers association. It is actually done with a
> Microsoft Word document merge and it is not satisfying. PDF is not an option
> as publishers have to do additionnal editing after the automatic step.
> The output document will be many pages long, so we want to process in batch
> instead of as a web application.
>
> As OpenOffice.org document format is XML, I would like to reuse the Cocoon
> pipeline with an ESQL transformer from a simple Java application.
>
> My question are :
> - is it possible ? I mean, is it possible to reuse just the pipeline in a
> standard Java application, without the sitemap and servlet stuff, without
> too much code or too many dependencies. The pipeline would be either
> hard-coded or specified with a simpler sitemap-like configuration file.
> - how ? The package org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline seems interesting,
> but I don't know which class to use and how to build a simple pipeline with
> a generator, a transformer and serialiser. Then, how to feed the pipeline ?
>
> Could you point me to the important classes, and the order to create them ?
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Olivier Mengué
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