Re: [Discuss] Sitemap NG

2012-08-06 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi Peter! apologize for not having been more precise on explaining my idea: while they look similar, I would consider the Sitemap a superset of pure Pipeline fluent APIs. Indeed, while a Sitemap woud _describe_ an "action" would be performed if the current pattern matches against the input, the P

Re: [Discuss] Sitemap NG

2012-08-06 Thread Peter Hunsberger
Hi Simone, I guess the part I'm missing is how would this differ from what is already in Cocoon 3 as an API? I do get that part (most, all?) of you objective is to get rid of the Spring layer, so maybe the end result is essentially the same as the C3 API in the end? Peter Hunsberger On Mon, Au

Re: [Discuss] Sitemap NG

2012-08-06 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi Peter! My proposal is writing an intermediate layer to create sitemaps, it doesn't aim to replace the existing infrastructure but IMHO it could be used as the foundation to create sitemaps; while all textual configurations work fine, having a more expressive and type checking APIs could help -

Re: [Discuss] Sitemap NG

2012-08-06 Thread Peter Hunsberger
Hi Simone, long time ago we had discussions on alternate languages for the C2 Sitemap, I used to want to do them in XSLT (as opposed to XML) with Java extensions to implement the actual interface from the XSLT to the resulting Cocoon object tree for the sitemap. These days I sometimes wonder if I

[Discuss] Sitemap NG

2012-08-06 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi all guys, I've had this mail draft for a long while and I think it's time to shout it out to get your feedbacks. Due to my involvement in Apache Commons and being strongly influenced by the Google-Guice design, I think we could get benefit from a vision that mixes the power of: * modularity;