i do the same in a small project that build web sites
the content come from .xml 's agregation then a layout.xsl put all this in order an make the final xml stucture and then a set of .xsl files produce the final results it was the only way to have logic inside sitemap and make sparing use of .xsp stavros On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Kris Rasmussen wrote: > > Let me know what you guys think about this. > > The general idea these days is to seperate content logic and style, as cocoon does > very well. However, I think it is even better if you can seperate structure from > style. The way i have done this in the past is with template calling in xsl. > However, I think it would be much cleaner to have two style sheet transformations in > cocoon, one that takes content to structure, and another that takes structure to > style. > > For example, if I had an employee database that output xml like this (content): > > <employee id=2> > <name>Some Name</name> > <phone>343234234</phone> > ... > </employee> > > I would then transform it to some structural language like this: > > <box title="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > <section title="details"> > .... > </section> > <section title="some other section"> > </section> > </box> > > And then finally transform the structural elements to some sort of presentational > form. > > Preferably the structural language would consist of as few as possible elements, > maybe a couple types of box's, a couple types of lists, a couple types of sections, > etc. > > Do people do stuff like this already, and if so are there any good xml languages > that one could use to describe structure? > > Kris > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
