I can't recommend to transform big documents like you DocBook book with huge stylesheets like DocBook XSL. The transformation will take too much time for a user.
But it's not impossible. You can for example use the chunk.xsl in the DocBook XSL for chunking a document in different HTML files (It uses Xalan redirect extension for output in different files). If a user requests one of those pages, you can test if it exists (ResourceExistsAction) and if not transform it before.
But the best would be to transform it on the commandline (independent of Cocoon) and deliver them as they are.
Marco Stolpe wrote:
Hi,
I'm rather new to Cocoon and XSL, but already have used Xalan together with DocBook stylesheets to produce HTML and PDF documents. Having read some of Cocoons online documentation and searched the mailing list archive there still remains the following question.
Let us assume I have created a rather huge document (a book, thesis, whatever) I'd like to publish on the web. A user visiting the web site should be able to view the document online in HTML-format, download the HTML version as a compressed ZIP-file or download one single PDF file.
It's clear to me that I can produce one single PDF file with Cocoon, but how can I produce an online (or zipped download) version distributed among several output files in HTML format? It would be painful for any reader to look at one single HTML file consisting of maybe a hundred of pages. I'm not only interested in a solution for DocBook, but a general one. For example, it would be nice to create a presentation consisting of several slides in one XML file, but only to show one single slide on screen.
One solution which came to my mind was to use XSP together with fields in a query string pointing to the portion of the document the user likes to read. But I'm asking myself if this is the best solution available, since using XSP wouldn't be a very portable solution, would it? Moreover, could I still produce a static version of the document (consisting of several files) using Cocoon from the command line with XSP?
Thanks in advance for any help/hint,
Marco
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