Derek, Thanks for your prompt reply.
Let me try and explain what we want to do. We need to develop a generic pluggable components based framework, in which different XML processors can be arranged in a pluggable and configurable manner, generating intermediate XML or XMLs, for specific sections of a web page like one each for Figures, Tables, Abstract, Full Text, Book TOCs etc. Then XSL can be applied to create html pages creating an aggregated view. A java/jaxp based framework can do for this, but we came across cocoon because of pipeline framework and It is mentioned in Cocoon documentation that apart from dynamic page generation, cocoon can be used for generating the static pages offline using the command line interface. These are some of the reasons that we looked at cocoon. Please suggest cocoon's viability in this scenario!! Thanks, Aseem _____ From: Derek Hohls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Batch processing of XML documents Aseem If all you need to do is process a bunch of XML files to create HTML, then a simple scripting approach, possibly mixed with XSLT, would do the job. Cocoon is primarily used for dynamic generation of pages. >>> "Aseem Monga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007/05/29 07:24:55 AM >>> Hi, I am a novice in cocoon. We have to develop an offline batch process for generating html pages statically, For this we are evaluating if we can use cocoon. Question 1: Should we wait for cocoon 2.2, which the list says is coming soon. When exactly is it expected? The data is in XML format in a client proprietary DTD. We would need to process a group of XMLs. From what I know is that only a single document is processed in pipelines. Question2: How can a pipeline be executed in a loop for source XML documents in a folder, so all the input XMLs can be processed in the pipeline defined, one after another. Thanks in advance. Aseem Monga Senior Software Engineer, HCL Technologies Ltd, STP-II, Infocity, Sec-34, Gurgaon, HR. India Mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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. <http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html> CSIR E-mail Legal Notice <http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html> CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions 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 CSIR CallCentre <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.mailscanner.info/> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
