I haven't quite got this ready for publication yet, but take a look at:
http://www.csparks.com/jeuler/index.jhtml
It's written for cocoon 2.2.
Somewhat unique is that it uses a shell script to perform one stage
of the pipeline. It works under linux and windows (with cygwin).
Here are
Definitely possible. You could have a look at the FINS project as a good
example of how to to this sort of thing. In that case they use XML as an
interface to JFreeChart.
You can write a custom serializer and/or transformer. Of course the
preferred way is to use XSL:FO and a number of people have
A common solution to the requirement to generate publication-quality PDF is to
use XSLT to create LaTeX code and rely on LaTeX's understanding of documents
and library of pre-written packages to create the PDF.
For real-time web applications it would be very useful to be able to drive this