html templates - best practise

[Andreas Bohnert]

Hi,   i read a lot of tutorials and docs about cocoon and i really like it, but I still don't know, what's the best practise to handle html templates.   I get the static part of my html page from a html designer and I want to leave it untouched, so the designer can modify it later on. Of course, some place holders and template instructions should be in there, to put the dynamic part into the right place.   maybe this strict seperation( html design <-> java/xml programming) is against the philosophie of cocoon, because I understand: all required data (static+dynamic) should be put in the xml datasource with the generator and during the transformation process this data will be mixed with html(or wap or pdf) language specific parts.   so, how do you handle this? any suggestions/comments are welcome!!   thanks very much Andreas