Hello,
you could use an entity to define/store your resource where you want.
That way, you could use it wherever you are.
Jean-Christophe
Adrien Guillon wrote:
Hello All,
I have hit a stumbling block with Cocoon. Basically, I have discovered on
past mailing list discussions, that resources in a sitemap are not accessible
by their mounted children sitemaps. This presents a major obstacle for me.
I understand that I can use the file generator with a call to cocoon://,
and even access an internal pipeline to keep things somewhat more secure and
separate concerns. However, the fragments I am re-using do not contain a
generator or a serializer. Let me explain...
Basically, I frequently make a call to the SQL transformer to fetch some
information. The result set is in an Apache SQL namespace, which is not what
I want. I then apply a generic stylesheet to the result set from the SQL
transformer, to change the namespace to an internal namespace which reflects
what this result embodies (there is more to it than just that, I'm not just
changing the namespace, but the semantics of the result set too). This helps
me not make mistakes, because I can say to myself "AHA! This is such and such
a result set, and so doesn't make sense here"... I also have other resources
that will be added as time goes on, and I can think of uses for them :-)
I have put this into a resource, so that with a few parameters I can
perform the query (based off whatever XML is in the pipeline, and with a
parameter specifying which datasource to use... e.g. test database or
production)... another parameter specifies the namespace of the document.
To my dismay, I cannot globally access the resources from the sub sitemaps.
This severely limits my usage of Cocoon... I either have to find a way to
"make it work" or come up with a creative solution. However, I have
frequently felt restricted in working with cocoon lately... I'm not putting
down Cocoon in any way, just learning the Cocoon way takes some time :-)
What is the official design reason for resources not being accessible by
child site maps ?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
AJ
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Jean-Christophe Kermagoret
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