Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: ...
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I believe that sources have strongly polluted the design of the cocoon sitemap by making generators obsolete
And generators have been mixing concerns since the beginning, by specifying both how to get something and how to transform it to xml.
true: there is a fine line between generation and source, especially since both, at the end, can throw sax events.
They good sources are the one that you can think about putting in your browser address textbox: file: http: https: ftp: cocoon: everytime there is a src="" attribute you need to get the source. it's a transport mechanism, it indicates *how* you get those bits to you... it should not be doing anything more than this.
Correct. The problem is not with sources, but the abuse of sources that made them more than just "bit stream getters".
yes, but I did see the need for them when they were introduced, given the lack of programmability of the pipelines.
I think that flow changed the picture so much that we now have to rethink where those sitemap artifacts really still make sense or not.
And I mean:
1) actions (I guess everybody agrees on this now) 2) sources (getting there) 3) input/output modules (next target)
-- Stefano.
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