I'm looking for guidance on the best way to implement caching in the
following setup. I've got a resource that generates XML data that I
want to view in multiple formats (simple enough). At the moment, I've
only got XML, HTML, and text views, making my pipeline something like:

R - S(xml)
|_   T - S(html)
|_   T - S(text)

What I want to happen is to have the resource be served from cache
whenever possible because it's doing expensive operations against a
CVS server. This seems like something that Cocoon would do very well,
but I'm not sure of the best way to approach this; several ideas:

Idea #1: Solve the problem using Cocoon Views + Cache-Points, but I
think that's going to introduce other problems down the line because I
will eventually be adding other resources that will need their own
processing to produce HTML, text, etc. views. That will force me to
have lots of views (e.g. resourcea-html, resourceb-html,
resourcea-txt, resourceb-txt etc.), all of which could be erroneously
applied to the wrong pipleline (since the view is supplied as part of
the query string). Maybe that's not an issue, but it seems messy to
me. Has anyone else done something similar? How well did it scale?

Idea #2: Is it possible to use the Caching-Point pipleline and
caching-point pipeline-hints on pipelines that *don't* include views?
If so, I could make something close to the resource a cache point and
generate content from there. Also, are there any examples of using the
caching-point pipeline with pipleline-hints? I haven't been able to
find much so far.

Idea #3: I know that if I introduce a non-caching component
immediately after the resource, everything works because the longest
cacheable piece of the pipeline occurs before the view specific
processing. But again, this is messy.

Thanks!
Matt

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