Aseem In general, Cocoon can handle the type of application you are looking at. Two issues: "Can we have a pipeline with just a generator, which depends on output of another pipeline." - no and yes. A pipeline must always have a serializer - the results must "go" somewhere - even if its a straightforward XML serializer that does not alter the data stream at all. And yes, pipelines can (and often are) chained - plenty of posts on this topic. Books? None recent, AFAIK. The market seems to be too limited. However, the ones available cover all of the basics and are perfectly adequate to get started on the learning curve. The online docs should be fine to supplement these and bring you more up-to-date. Scattered? There is the official site + the wiki - where else? And the community is one of the best.!
>>> "Aseem Monga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007/05/21 02:33 PM >>> We have to develop a batch process application for generating some part of webiste content statically before hand, that can be served to the Users directly. This requires a multi step processing of the Source input content, which is in XML format, confining to a DTD. The Fact that it requires multi step processing, forced us to think about using Cocoon The Pipeline structure can be used, where we will have to code different types of Generators for doing the processing, like generating the Citations pages, TOC, RSS feeds etc. Then the pipelines can be linked one after another for the multi step processing, using the Cocoon protocol. Can we have a pipeline with just a generator, which depends on output of another pipeline. Please suggest whether Cocoon will be a good choice for the same? Also I could not find any book written in past 2 years on the subject, the best one available prior to that was XML Applications with Cocoon. Please guide us on this too. As is evident that the documentation on the site is too scattered, and features of Cocoon are too much for a beginner to get started with J Thanks in Advance Aseem MongaSenior Software Engineer,HCL Technologies Ltd,STP-II, Infocity, Sec-34,Gurgaon, HR.Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
