Hi,
Recently there were 2 requests on the users list about accessing the current pipeline structure.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109448337100002&r=1&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=109473546831881&w=2
What does the devlist think about this? Certainly cocoon is being stretched in all areas possible, having the need for metadata about the executing pipeline structure is just one example of this.
Having this extra metadata would allow for components that can produce different output depending on how they are used in a pipeline (but this probably breaks a few cocoon design rules right?). In my cocoon video rendering application i got around this by creating an xml control structure that was used by all components, so a component could find out what all previous components did and what the results were.
Thoughts? Is this difficult to implement? A 2.2 feature perhaps?
Jorg
