Alessandro Bologna wrote:
Thanks Rob!
Any other suggestions from the list?
Alessandro
On 9/12/07, Robert Koberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:25 -0400, Alessandro Bologna wrote:
In any case, what I am really interested is what are the best practices
using Velocity to render complex, quite unstructured, namespace
qualified XML contents.
Velocity is simply not a capable tool in that application space. The
work has never been put into it to make it a serious option for XML
processing. Not only is the XML support lacking (you noticed, I guess,
that DVSL has no support for XML namespaces, just one example of how
half baked it is...) but the Velocity engine has a lot of limitations
wrt scoping and recursion that you would likely butt up against in any
XML processing task of a certain level of complexity.
My (somewhat biased) advice is to look at FreeMarker. Here is a link to
the section of the FreeMarker documentation that covers using it as an
XML processing tool:
http://freemarker.org/docs/xgui.html
In particular, the subsection on declarative XML processing would
probably be of interest:
http://freemarker.org/docs/xgui_declarative.html
Jonathan Revusky
--
lead developer, FreeMarker project, http://freemarker.org/
Your going to run into problems with DVSL/Anakia if your content is
unstructured
What was your approach?
XSL is the tool for the job.
best,
-Rob
Thanks in advance for your responses.
Alessandro
On 9/11/07, Alessandro Bologna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
my apologies in advance if this is an FAQ, but I couldn't find an
answer
in the documentation, so I decided to write to the list.
In the CMS project I am working on, we are considering using velocity
to
generate "pre-cooked" template based web pages, using XML as data
source.
In other words, the data to be published is essentially XML, with
elements
such as <article>, <headline>, <deck>, <body> etc, with some elements
containing quite unstructured XHTML (i.e variable number of <p/>,
<div/>
etc), and other containing refences to other elements via id/refid.
This data has to be processed to generate static HMTL files that are
then
pushed to Apache for serving them.
Question #1
It seems that there are two main options: using XMLEasyBean or/and
DVSL.
Are there any other alternatives?
Question #2
In both cases, it seems that XML namespaces are not supported (I am
getting an empty output if my source contains namespace qualified XML
elements), am I doing something wrong?
Question #3
Any idea of performances, compared to say, XSLT?
Thanks
Alessandro Bologna
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