Glen Ezkovich wrote:
By the way, I'm curious what you think about making a block's resources available. There are two conflicting wiki pages.
there is this
A block exposes a sitemap and Avalon Components (both optionally)
from http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/GT2003RealBlocks
and this
A block exposes two types of services: â components â resources â pipelines ??
from http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/BlocksDefinition
the second of which gives the following as an example of accessing a resource.
block:skin:/stylesheets/document2html.xslt
that's outdated. I started off the design thinking that blocks should expose resources, but then Sylvain convinced us that this was just going to create some problems because at that point you need two different protocols one to identify the file space and the other to indentify the URL space.
So, if you want to access a resource, use a reader on your sitemap and you unify the approach (note that performance wise this is not a problem since the caches run in between all this).
-- Stefano.
