try the latest version of eclipse (www.eclipse.org), and then download the xml plugin from Bocaloco software (http://www.xmlbuddy.com/).
Andrew On 23 Nov 2004, at 14:36, Laurent Perez wrote:
Hello
We are using Dreamweaver for our current websites design, producing xhtml pages - templates - containing custom tags that once hosted on our server are being replaced on the fly by database data, which is a very classic setup, I guess :)
We'll be moving to a Cocoon based backend soon, mostly for enterprise needs (i.e we need to host and access various SOAP web-services - Java behind -, and exchange XML flows with our clients, which are in the publishing industry, I assume Cocoon is the right choice), but I'm currently trying to figure out if Cocoon can be a reliable solution to manage several web sites (I do not mean "web applications" here, only "sites", like small sites based on a small database) : afaik, you have two popular methods to output website content, XSP versus Flowscript+JX, which is fine but both are very "code-based", I mean websites designers are not Java or XML experts (or both).
My problem is that our designers - they did spend several days evaluating Cocoon - are afraid to move from our current DW+PHP backend, because they think the whole "sitemap > pattern hit > xsp or flowscript + jx > transformer > result" is just too obscure and difficult to dig into, ie when editing a website you have to remember the whole sitemap schema, especially when using aggregates. I also don't understand the right choice between having a mega-huge xsl sheet able to transform every page on our site based on call-templates or "one xsl per page transformation" path. Plus they told me XSP was similar to our PHP approach but was an obsolete (?) framework, and Flowscripts look nice but require a huge Java knowledge. What I am looking for is an editor being able to handle Cocoon-based websites : for example, something being able to traverse a sitemap, find all matching patterns, build a tree of patterns, output the resulting xml flows (from xsp or jx sources), and visually edit elements of the xsl sheet. Dreamweaver has no clue about XML/XSL editing, XMLSpy has no clue about visual editing, Eclipse has never been a web editor, and Cocoon Wiki is dry on visual editors reviews.
What are you guys using when dealing with 'pure' website design and management under Cocoon ? Thanks for any input :)
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