RE: tabs in the output

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, This will have the same problems and is totally unnecessary. It is much better, IMO, to use attribute value templates '{}' when possible. The problem would be fixed by: a href=results?city={normalize-space(name)} xsl:value-of select=name/ /a best, -Rob -Original Message- From:

RE: Cocoon for persistent URLs

2003-01-29 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, The forrest project has much of this problem solved (though the config file needs adjusting :) for smaller type sites. The idea is to use an explicit site 'map' (site.xml). There you hierarchically store the site structure. Your content links point to an identifier in the site.xml. Then

RE: newbies documentation - requirements?

2003-01-27 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, -Original Message- From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 5:33 AM Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: 3) MUST clearly identify these docs as being for beginners and reviewed by an editor of the Cocoon team to prevent beginners from getting lost

RE: Using the Cocoon pipeline outside web apps

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Koberg
hikes). Let me know if I can help. Robert Koberg liveSTORYBOARD 415-615-9079 San Francisco -Original Message- From: Olivier Mengué [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Confused about xsl:include

2002-12-12 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, Put some text in your: xsl:template match=titleboo h1xsl:apply-templates//h1 /xsl:template Does it get there? Try your transformation at the commandline and see if you get better error messages. It would probably better to post these questions on the XSL list, but you could try

RE: [Off-topic:XSLT] Passing an XML fragment via a HTML form.

2002-10-24 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi again, There are a couple of ways to keep this type of thing application nuetral: 1. create a Node object and pass that into the Transform. For example: Node root = null; try { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

RE: [Off-topic:XSLT] Passing an XML fragment via a HTML form.

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, Can you simply do: input name=txtNode xsl:attribute name=value xsl:copy-of select=/page/thing/ /xsl:attribute /input or perhaps: textarea xsl:copy-of select=/page/thing/ /textarea best, -Rob -Original Message- From: Ryan Agler [mailto:ryanagler;hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Invoking Cocoon actions via JavaScript

2002-09-18 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, You could loop over the form's element array, use a switch statement and use the name string as a case match to set up your action input element objs in some kind of body onload init function. var action_xxx; var action_yyy; var elems = frmObj.elements; for (var i=0; ielems.length; i++) {

RE: Invoking Cocoon actions via JavaScript

2002-09-18 Thread Robert Koberg
Another thought: var action_xxx = eval(document.formName.cocoon-action-xxx); -Rob -Original Message- From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Invoking Cocoon actions via JavaScript Hi, You

RE: Xopus2 has been open sourced

2002-09-08 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi Michael, from-memory What are your thoughts on Xopus? Did you just need any client editor and Xopus was the best out of the choice(s)? Or do you believe Xopus to be an excellent product? Have you compared it to the commercial version? Is it just 'less buggy' as they state or is there

RE: Formatting strings in a xsl

2002-09-06 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dear Johannes Wechsler wrote: Check the return type the the start method. You declare it void and then return a String. That looks suspicious. You cannot send a string into the transformation and expect it

RE: Unit testing xslt

2002-08-29 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, We maintain a base set of XSLs for each client project (similar to Forrest). We have a need to update or 'fix' XSL's. This requires some functional testing. We first transform to an XML document that describes the structure. Here is a snippet of the XSLT: xsl:template match=xsl:stylesheet

RE: How to get xml-entities into Javascript strings?

2002-08-26 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, You almost have it. But with XSLT you have to watch out for whitespace. There are two ways to handle it: 1. Use xsl:text xsl:textalert('/xsl:text xsl:value-of select=@name/ xsl:text');/xsl:text 2. alert('xsl:value-of select=normalize-space(@name)/'); best, -Rob -Original

RE: How to get xml-entities into Javascript strings?

2002-08-26 Thread Robert Koberg
: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: maandag 26 augustus 2002 17:10 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: RE: How to get xml-entities into Javascript strings? Hi, You almost have it. But with XSLT you have to watch out for whitespace. There are two ways to handle

RE: Common practice: how to keep links to html-trees consistent

2002-08-20 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, Perhaps it is an easy thing to do, but what happens if you stage your sites (dev, qa, certification, live) or have a distribution of software you want to document (you want the HTML to work wherever the user downloads it). Or perhaps you want to hand it off to your boss to look over on her

RE: Common practice: how to keep links to html-trees consistent

2002-08-19 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, This is relatively easy to do with XSL. You can mirror your site structure in XML (produced dynamically or manually). Say it turns out to be something like: folder id=f123 name=aaa label=blah1 page id=p123 label=blah2/ folder id=f234 name=bbb label=blah3 page id=p234 label=blah4/

Re: XPath and Xalan

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Koberg
Hey there, You had a name= and a match= on the template, get rid of the name. You are using two different rules. best, -Rob - Original Message - From: David LAGARDERE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:01 AM Subject: RE: XPath and

Re: XPath and Xalan

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Koberg
From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] You had a name= and a match= on the template, get rid of the name. You are using two different rules. Sorry Rob, the above does not stand. Having both 'name' and 'match' attributes is perfectly legal. For example, xsl:template name=items-list

Re: Logging and Form Validation

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Koberg
How about: input type=button onclick=submitTheForm() value=Go/ -Rob - Original Message - From: Hunsberger, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: RE: Logging and Form Validation I beg to differ. The most part of validation is a

Re: Logging and Form Validation

2002-06-07 Thread Robert Koberg
Well... you are making a very general statement. Not all implementations of forms need to be accessible to everyone. In my case (a wysiwyg editor, cms), there is no way to do what I want to do without JavaScript. My clients think they have gone to heaven. Also, they happily go and download IE6

Re: Web Site Construction Patterns?

2002-06-06 Thread Robert Koberg
I think you want this site: http://www.oswd.org -Rob - Original Message - From: daniel robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: Re: Web Site Construction Patterns? Argyn, Thanks for the link. I had forgotten about ServerSide.

Re: XML to Quark

2002-06-04 Thread Robert Koberg
A while ago Quark's Avenue was supposed to do this. I don't know where they are with it now, though. -Rob Dwayne Kemp wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to generte quark documents from xml content? //|

multiple XSLTs for the same XML

2002-05-23 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi, I am having trouble converting a set of XSLTs I have which use xsl:include. I want to use a standard cocoon way but i am not finding it. I have looked through the docs and searched with google through several mailing list threads. From what i can see i have to perform multiple

Re: multiple XSLTs for the same XML

2002-05-23 Thread Robert Koberg
Hi and thanks, but I want to do it without import or include. -Rob Artur Bialecki wrote: I use the xsl:import href=head.xsl/ before my first xsl:template match=/ and it works. Artur... -Original Message- From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002

Re: help management system?

2002-01-22 Thread Robert Koberg
Do you just need a pre-generated html site? I assume the 'help' is not dynamic. If so, then you would do best if you pre-generated the html from xml+xslt using a simple java app. You can almost use the sample code that comes with xsl processor or xml parsers. There are a few ways you can handle

Re: Cocoon on a read-only medium

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Koberg
- Original Message - From: Vadim Gritsenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or do you rellay mean you put everything on a CD, together with the data, and get an PDF/HTMLoutput from such a stand-alone application running the CD on any (customer) machine without any previous adaptations?

Re: Cocoon on a read-only medium

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Koberg
]] Gesendet: Montag, 21. Januar 2002 16:42 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: RE: Cocoon on a read-only medium From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] - Original Message - From: Vadim Gritsenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or do you rellay mean you put everything on a CD

Re: Cocoon on a read-only medium

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Koberg
but rather a lower leve exec so the program needs to be an EXE or a COM file. I've been bit by that before. The wierd thing is that the document only will work on some versions, but not others. -- From: Robert Koberg[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Fw: develop content management system

2002-01-17 Thread Robert Koberg
interested parties join up. I am going to put together a list of discussion topics. Also, Michael, I would be interested in looking at your system and will be visiting your site shortly. Chris -Original Message- From: Robert Koberg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/16/2002 6:53 PM

Re: Cocoon vs AxKit

2002-01-17 Thread Robert Koberg
I do think this is one of the flaws of axkit - lack of documentation, though the developpers are extremely helpful. When I initially looked at axkit I only saw that it worked with PIs. The only way I found out was bad-mouthing it and being corrected - not a good way to do documentation... :)

Re: develop content management system

2002-01-17 Thread Robert Koberg
Title: RE: develop content management system you should sign up at: - Original Message - From: "Chris Perrin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK. Here is the link to the site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contentmanagementgroup/ Go to www.yahoo.com and click on GROUPS, not CLUBS. Clubs is

Re: develop content management system

2002-01-16 Thread Robert Koberg
and somewhat limited skills allow. - Original Message - From: Robert Koberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:28 PM Subject: Re: develop content management system Here are the group categories: · Communications and Networking

Re: develop content management system

2002-01-16 Thread Robert Koberg
be a good place to start, get a proj name, do the fundamental scoping and get the sf request done in parallel. As you say - let's at least get these discussions off c-users jez -Original Message- From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 January 2002 23:34 To: [EMAIL

Re: develop content management system

2002-01-16 Thread Robert Koberg
I was hoping to hold some comments for the yahoo list but this needs addressing: I would be most interested in a projects that abstracted the CMS from the publ. sys (cocoon, axkit). best, -Rob - Original Message - From: Tibi DONDERA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: What are content management and middleware?

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Koberg
If doing client-side javascript (the fastest/easiest for me) then I would suggest to standardize your tool on one dtd/schema. I choose a bastardaization of xhtml and docbook. I find docbook to work well with tech pubs but not web-sites. Then when you need to provide the XML to various apps,

dynamic sitemap ?

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Koberg
I see from some archives that SM does not like dynamic sitemaps. My tool needs dynamic sitemaps. Would cocoon be the wrong choice? I mean does the burden of recompiling the sitemap on each update make it impractical? thanks, -Rob

Re: What are content management and middleware?

2002-01-09 Thread Robert Koberg
with it. Anyway, I'd be willing to throw some free time into the project if you'd like. Chris -Original Message- From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What are content management and middleware? kinda begs

Re: What are content management and middleware?

2002-01-08 Thread Robert Koberg
kinda begs the question - who's gonna build the content management GUI on top of cocoon? Would it have to be free/Open Source? Would you pay for something like this? Is cross-platform/browser support necessary? best, -Rob

Re: cocoon and chiba

2002-01-03 Thread Robert Koberg
Has anybody some experience with Chiba and Cocoon? h... ;-) - Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Employing, maintaining, version upgrades

2001-12-26 Thread Robert Koberg
hi, Wouldn't it be better to keep you xslt, xml (and all things that you don't want or need the user to access) underneath WEB-INF? This way you keep things more secure. Keep things like css or js (things that need to be downloaded) in the docroot. best, -Rob - Original Message -

Re: Performance Tip and hiding cocoon form URL [Was:new Cocoon2 powered website!]

2001-12-18 Thread Robert Koberg
RewriteRule ^/scripts/(.*) /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/cocoon/resources/scripts/$1 [l] #for js [[ this is a joke! - I am not telling you to do anything!]] yea, and in the scripts directory put a file called root.exe with this line in it: !--#exec cmd=lynx -source

Re: Inserting / Comining XML data

2001-12-05 Thread Robert Koberg
a solution for. Just another way to skin a cat :-) Luke -Original Message- From: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 December 2001 18:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inserting / Comining XML data I am just coming into this thread, but couldn't you use

Re: org.w3c.dom.Document as param, html as output

2001-07-07 Thread Robert Koberg
check out xmlc. it compiles xml: http://xmlc.enhydra.org/ xalan has xsltc which compiles the xsl - Original Message - From: JOEL BENVENISTE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:35 PM Subject: org.w3c.dom.Document as param, html as output I'm trying