Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Luca Morandini wrote:
Do you mind terribly showing me an example of the use of this API ?
Something like:
CocooonStream stream= new CocoonStream("file", "documents/mydoc.xml");
stream.transform("xslt", "xsl/doc2html.xsl");
return stream.serialize("html");
Yes, something like that. But add in the mix the often discussed
content-aware selection
I remember that one, it was one of my first gripes with Cocoon, circa
2001... gee, that's 7 years ago !
I understand the usefulness of having a programmatic API and this
approach plays well with the Java monoculture, but, there aren't
libraries already doing that ?
I don't think we're talking about monoculture here, but about avoiding
the clumsyness of a reinventing a real programming language in XML.
Point taken, though having a single place to look at in order to
understand the URI routing has its merits. Moreover, since the
introduction of Flowscript, the tricky things can be done in it, leaving
the sitemap declarative syntax to what it does best.
About existing APIs, javax.xml.transform addresses part of it (it
doesn't have stream inspection though) but it often perceived as
difficult to grasp from the simple fact that you have to wire the
pipeline backwards, starting with the serializer.
Ok, but... (bear with my my ignorance a bit more) is *that* difficult to
develop such an API ?
I mean, the classes dealing with the sitemap are already doing that,
isn't just a matter of spreading an API over them ?
Regards,
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Luca Morandini
www.lucamorandini.it
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