Date: 2005-01-20T07:11:43 Editor: DanielFagerstrom Wiki: Cocoon Wiki Page: Templates URL: http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/Templates
no comment Change Log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -33,3 +33,14 @@ There has also been discussions, design and implementation activities about factoring out the format part of templating and CForms to a separate layer: * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109941988300003&r=1&w=2 (RT) Attribute Rendering and CForms Convertors] + +== XSLT/XQuery based templating == + +The idea of using XSLT or XQuery as template language was discussed in quite some detail in the beginning of 2003: + + * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104930795600004&r=4&w=2] + * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=104998241710064&w=2] + * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105016536400004&r=1&w=2] + * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=105178436429214&w=2] + +Although being an attractive templating solution in many ways, the conclusion back then was that it was to complicated to get efficient traversal of Java beans. Also there wasn't any good XQuery implementations that had a licence that was considered compatible with ASL either.
