ESQL is one of the builtin cocoon stylesheets, there are some samples in
the cocoon distribution and documataion about it in the cocoon docs.
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Kilmer, Erich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet: Montag, 13. August 2001 17:21
> An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Betreff: RE: XML in database, how to pass to Cocoon?
>
>
> OK, I read up on ESQL and can see the database connection
> params and SQL. Is
> this the way that I would read my XML from the database
> rather than from a
> file?
> How does this integrate with Cocoon?
> Erich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Seifert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: AW: XML in database, how to pass to Cocoon?
>
>
>
> > I have been using Cocoon 1 for a little while and have been
> happy with
> the
> > results. Using the browser I can enter a URL that contains
> the path to
> the
> > XML file and then Cocoon renders the PDF in the browser. This works
> well.
> > Good job to all involved.
> > I do have a couple of questions though.
> >
> > 1) The technique described above works well for XML files but in my
> > application I will read the XML from a blob in the database (which I
> know
> > how to do). Say I get the XML from the database and put it into a
> String. Is
> > there any hooks in Cocoon so that I can call a method and
> pass it the
> XML
> > string? Where can I see the Cocoon servlets source?
>
> Use the esql-Stylesheet with get-xml, with this you can put a XML tree
> from the database in you xml stream generated by cocoon. The
> xml has to
> be wellformed in the database.
>
> > 2) Has anyone managed to get background images working in FOP?
>
> Never tried.
>
> > 3) Has anyone managed to format dates in FOP?
>
> Unfortunately XSLT has no date formatting functions. But you
> can use the
> Java Core classes or you own classes for formatting in XSLT using the
> java extension support in Xalan. It's the xalan-specific, of
> course. The
> XSLT 1.1 Specs define a product-inpdependet extension
> support, but this
> does not work in the current xalan-version used by cocoon 2. See
> Xalan-Homepage on the apache website.
>
> Stefan
>
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