RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-04 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
> > > Instead of extensions you could use custom URIResolvers to return the > > result > > > from anywhere (or just do something and return succes/fail) to an > > representation > > > usable by a transformation. > > > > That would work, but where I'm heading I essentially want the equivalent of >

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:34 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!) > > > > > Maybe, maybe not. One would

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-04 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
> > Maybe, maybe not. One would need to use a lot extension functions to > > achieve similar things (e.g. j2ee, databases and stuff) but that might > > be portable to other pipeline systems (?). OTOH Apache Cocoon a lot > > about SoC and it will need to be seen if that works as well with your > >

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-04 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
> > This is likely an issue you're going to run into also; mapping XPath to > > random session objects might be possible, but I suspect the two domains > > aren't perfectly isomorphic :-( > > Yes, but since we don't need to work on strings, less so. All these > modules work on Objects and only on

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Christian Haul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!) > > > On 02.Oct.2002 -- 09:47 AM, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: >

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-04 Thread Christian Haul
On 02.Oct.2002 -- 09:47 AM, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: > This is likely an issue you're going to run into also; mapping XPath to > random session objects might be possible, but I suspect the two domains > aren't perfectly isomorphic :-( Yes, but since we don't need to work on strings, less so. All

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-02 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
>> This gets me to a pet issue of mine: If I ever get the time I'd really like >> to build a version of the site map pipeline handler based XSLT that has all >> context information available to it as XML; the request variables, session >> data, etc. The XSLT could either act as a filter to some

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-02 Thread Christian Haul
On 02.Oct.2002 -- 09:55 AM, Jens Lorenz wrote: > Christian Haul wrote: > Jens, > >Yes, but not just the pipeline but anywhere. Actions use it, so do > >Matchers and Selectors. It would not be much of a problem to make it > >accessible from XSP as well. It's just not done, yet. > > SCNR, follow

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-02 Thread Jens Lorenz
Christian Haul wrote: Hi Christian, > Yes, but not just the pipeline but anywhere. Actions use it, so do > Matchers and Selectors. It would not be much of a problem to make it > accessible from XSP as well. It's just not done, yet. SCNR, following the discussion here we just thought about the g

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Christian Haul
On 01.Oct.2002 -- 04:09 PM, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: > > Think of the various matchers and selectors in cocoon. What if you > > could just plug-in the data source? There wouldn't be sources * match > > type matchers. > > This gets me to a pet issue of mine: If I ever get the time I'd really like

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
> Say, you want to insert data to a database. Some data stems from request > parameters, some from the session and some from request attributes set > by another action. In order to make this possible, the database action > needs to be flexible enough to do this. It used to read from request > par

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Christian Haul
On 01.Oct.2002 -- 01:20 PM, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: > >> I've been following this discussion for the last week or so and suddenly > >> this morning I had to start questioning exactly what the true purpose of > all > >> this is? The idea of being able to dig out a value based on a precedence > >>

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
>> I've been following this discussion for the last week or so and suddenly >> this morning I had to start questioning exactly what the true purpose of all >> this is? The idea of being able to dig out a value based on a precedence >> hierarchy makes sense, but XML and XSLT already have very good

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Christian Haul
On 02.Oct.2002 -- 01:32 AM, Jeff Turner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > > The degree, to what they digest the data is not set to > > stone. SessionModule could, for instance, just return the session > > object. > > Yes, it would have to, to accommodate

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Christian Haul
On 01.Oct.2002 -- 09:46 AM, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: > I've been following this discussion for the last week or so and suddenly > this morning I had to start questioning exactly what the true purpose of all > this is? The idea of being able to dig out a value based on a precedence > hierarchy mak

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Jeff Turner
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > On 01.Oct.2002 -- 01:31 AM, Jeff Turner wrote: ... > > It is universally pluggable, only the plugin mechanism is inheritance, > > not composition. The current model is: > > > > AbstractJXPathModule . > > |

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
f you have specific reasons why doing this via XML/XSLT is problematic I'd be interested in hearing them. -Original Message- From: Christian Haul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice cha

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-10-01 Thread Christian Haul
On 01.Oct.2002 -- 01:31 AM, Jeff Turner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:56:36PM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > > On 30.Sep.2002 -- 09:59 PM, Jeff Turner wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > > > > I would prefer that module to be a "meta" module that ca

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-09-30 Thread Jeff Turner
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:56:36PM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > On 30.Sep.2002 -- 09:59 PM, Jeff Turner wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > > > I would prefer that module to be a "meta" module that can be > > > configured to take input from any source (i.

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-09-30 Thread Christian Haul
On 30.Sep.2002 -- 03:38 PM, Piroumian Konstantin wrote: > > From: Christian Haul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I would prefer that module to be a "meta" module that can be > > configured to take input from any source (i.e. another > > InputModule) rather than do the reading itself. > > > > Th

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-09-30 Thread Christian Haul
On 30.Sep.2002 -- 09:59 PM, Jeff Turner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > > I would prefer that module to be a "meta" module that can be > > configured to take input from any source (i.e. another InputModule) > > rather than do the reading itself. > > >Fro

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-09-30 Thread Piroumian Konstantin
> From: Jeff Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > > That would be nifty. > > > or document stored as session attribute. > > This might already be possible, since I think JXPath can > traverse from the Session object to a DOM.

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-09-30 Thread Jeff Turner
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Christian Haul wrote: > On 30.Sep.2002 -- 02:06 PM, Piroumian Konstantin wrote: > > > From: Jeff Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:37:39PM +0400, Konstantin Piroumian wrote: > > > > From: "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-09-30 Thread Piroumian Konstantin
> From: Christian Haul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On 30.Sep.2002 -- 02:06 PM, Piroumian Konstantin wrote: > > > From: Jeff Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:37:39PM +0400, Konstantin > Piroumian wrote: > > > > From: "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > (c

Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!)

2002-09-30 Thread Christian Haul
On 30.Sep.2002 -- 02:06 PM, Piroumian Konstantin wrote: > > From: Jeff Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:37:39PM +0400, Konstantin Piroumian wrote: > > > From: "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (cross-posting to cocoon-dev, cause it concerns more Cocoon than Fo