Maurice Lanselle wrote:
Ross Gardler said the following on 06/06/2005 16:15:
Maurice Lanselle wrote:
I am trying to integrate another content type, one based on a
published document schema from a standards association (hr-xml.org).
It would be better to do this as a plugin as it would be useful to a
wider community. Are you using 0.7? If not you cannot build it as a
plugin. I would recomend changing to 0.7 (it is stable enough being
very close to a release).
Building a plugin is really easy, see
http://forrest.apache.org/0.7/docs/howto/howto-buildPlugin.html
I've just now read the docs on plugins you pointed to, and I understand
why you recommend that route. For various personal reasons, I'm waiting
for 0.7 distribution, and am not in a position to build from sources
myself. But it seems like my resume2document.xsl stylesheet could be
reused in an input plugin later without making changes, just packaging
it. Is that not true?
Yes.
...
However, you should avoid limiting the URL space of your application
by requiring a given file type to have a given filename or path. This
can result in false matches. You should use the SourceTypeResolver,
for an example of how see
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/trunk/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.simplified-docbook/input.xmap?view=markup
for an example of how to do this.
I totally buy your point about not requiring a document type to have a
given file name or path. Since I'm trying to use or produce xml files
which have the ".xml" extension rather than something more distinctive,
I would like Forrest to choose the stylesheet on the basis of the
doctype, perhaps using a catalog (like for resolving DTDs...why not
catalogs for xsl?). It looks like that is what happens in the
<map:resources> group in the example you pointed me to (below). My
first attempt to *bend* it to my purpose failed, however: "Type
'sourcetype' does not exist for 'map:pipeline' at..." when I replaced
You need to copy the section that defines the sourcetype component too
(see <map:components>) in the above linked sitemap.
Ross
