RE: Return xml from an Action to the pipeline?

Chris Marasti-Georg Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:18:59 -0700

Or easier still, have a pipeline for each source that simply does a generate and serialize as xml, and use an aggregation:

<map:match pattern="request">

<map:aggregate element="merged">

<map:part src=""/>

</map:aggregate>

<map:transform src=""/>

<map:serialize type="xhtml"/>

</map:match>

<map:match pattern="report">

<map:generate type="report-generator"/>

<map:serialize type="xml"/>

</map:match>

<map:match pattern="other">

<map:generate src=""/>

<map:serialize type="xml"/>

</map:match>

The xml that gets to the transformer would look like:

<report-document>...</report-document>

<other-document>...</other-document>

</merged>

where report-document and other-document are the document elements of those individual xml files.

Chris Marasti-Georg

From: Combinational Logic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Return xml from an Action to the pipeline?

I think this would be possible with cinclude. Each generator would have its own pipeline. One of your generators would generate cinclude tags that pull in XML from the other generator/pipeline.

From: Lachlan Paterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Return xml from an Action to the pipeline?

Is it possible to have two generators and then merge the results?

On 10/16/05, Combinational Logic <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Having never created a generator, I can't comment on that, but it sounds
like a good idea.  Can anyone estimate how much effort this requires?

Another way might be call the java lib from flowscript, creating a DOM.
Then pass the DOM to a JXTemplate (along with any other DOMs you want to
'merge' with).  The flowscript would look as follows:

var reportDom = Way.To.Create.Dom.From.Some.Java.Lib();
var otherDom = Way.To.Load.Your.Other.Dom();
cocoon.sendPage("merge-jxpipe", {"reportDom" : reportDom, "otherDom":
otherDom } );

The JXTemplate could be as simple as the following:

<to-merge>
        <report>
          #{reportDom/*}
        </report>
        <other>
          #{otherDom/*}
        </other>
</to-merge>

Then you could use XSLT to do the merge.

Lachlan Paterson wrote: ...
> So, Jasper Reports aside, my question (assuming the above method is
> sound) is a more general 2 part question:
>
> 1) How do I return xml from an Action and access it in the pipeline?
> 2) How to I merge that xml document into the one that the pipeline is
> processing?

Actions should not return XML. Why not write a generator instead?

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Return xml from an Action to the pipeline?

Reply via email to