On 01/07/2011 11:40, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote:
On 01/07/2011 11:29, Reinhard Pötz wrote:
On 07/01/2011 10:25 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote:
Hi all,
recently I have been in the situation for which I need to
parametrize an XML file of my application; I thought there was a
simpler way but I ended up by using an additional XSLT
transformation step (since the XSLTTransformer can accep parameters
from the pipeline).
With C2.1 I used to put in place the JXGenerator [1] (or
JXTransformer [2] depending on the case): this saved me, in many
cases, from an additional transformation step in the pipeline.
Even though it is true that everything you could do with JXGenerator
can always be done with XMLGenerator + XSLTTransformer, do you think
that such component can be a "nice to have" in C3?
So far there is only the StringTemplateGenerator component, that
dynamically generates XML based on a template.
How long should it be to add sitemap parameter handling there?
There are also no 'build-in' objects like request, session, etc.
which were supported by the JXGenerator or the VelocityGenerator in
Cocoon 2.x
I have no strong opinion on what should be migrated to C3 as long as
it goes into a new module or the cocoon-optional module ;-)
Eh eh, I knew that :-)
I suggest that you choose that technology that fits your requirements
and your time constraints (VelocityGenerator should be rather
straight forward, migrating JX* is definitly more-timeconsuming) best.
As far as the "sitemap parameter handling" part is viable, the
VelocityGenerator could be fine.
After taking a closer look to cocoon-stringtemplate, I ended up by doing
some adjustments to the previous implementation, updating to latest
StringTemplate available to maven and adding, besides the
StringTemplateGenerator, a StringTemplateTransformer.
I have also updated cocoon-sample so that it should be straightforward
to check these two components running.
In this way, we (well, at least I) have something that should cover the
principal use cases of JX* or VelocityGenerator.
Cheers.
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Francesco Chicchiriccò
Apache Cocoon Committer and PMC Member
http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
