On 8/13/05, Antonio Gallardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

" Cocoon interacts with most data sources, including filesystems, RDBMS,
LDAP, native XML databases, and network-based data sources."

> http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/

The above link has good info.  As someone totally unfamiliar with
Cocoon, I like the way it talks about some applications of Cocoon
concretely.

This is what I want to do with Cocoon, plus some other stuff :)

First, I need to get some data:

"93. Use Cocoon to Create a Well-Formed View of a Web Page, Then Scrape
It for Data"
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlhks/toc.html>

Oreilly has some hacks available as PDF downloads, just not this one.
Anyhow, a very cool book, I learned from that than I did from anything
purporting to teach XML.  I suppose that's because when I read about how
XML should be formatted this way or that, I yawn.  When I see something
like the above then the light bulb goes on and I get interested.  (I
just skimmed it at the book store.)

First I have to make room on my hard drive and install Cocoon, though.
I can't find reference as to how big Cocoon is once installed, although
I do know that it runs as a servlet.  I don't think it'll be that big,
but I'd like to know.

I've done some stuff with JTidy, but I now realize that I'm just
following in others footsteps.  I don't know that I'm glad that Cocoon
can save me hassle, or dissapointed because I wanted to do it all
myself.  Kinda bittersweet ;)


-Thufir

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