On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 21:49 -0400, Joerg Heinicke wrote:
> On 25.03.2008 18:46, shai200 wrote:
>
> > This requirement is the primary function that I'll need from Cocoon,
> > otherwise it's not good for me and I'll have to find some other servlet
> > generating framework.
>
> It's not that Cocoon does not support this functionality in general.
> What we said so far only means you picked the wrong component types.
> Actions are for different purpose than data generation. Look at Vadim's
> post regarding the alternatives.
>
> > What I require is an "Action Generator" (rather than the existing
> > FileGenerator) that takes XHTML output that a POJO (i.e. and Action class)
> > returns and then moves it down the pipeline.
>
> From what I understand you are looking for a component converting
> Strings into XML without coping with the parsing - otherwise you could
> just implement a generator. But even parsing is totally easy, an
> implementation of your own generator could be:
>
> InputSource source = new InputSource(new StringReader("<xmlString>");
> SAXParser parser = null;
> try {
> parser = (SAXParser) manager.lookup(SAXParser.ROLE);
> parser.parse(source, xmlConsumer);
> } finally {
> manager.release(parser);
> }
>
> xmlConsumer is available in a generator.
Actually as I understand the thread so far we need to point out that the
"<xmlString>" needs to have all the characteristics a valid xml document
has. I mean you need a wellformed "<xmlString>" since the Parser will
produce SAX events.
salu2
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