I would use a regular pipeline for the authors list, with caching turned on (so it doesn't run the query every time - check the cocoon docs for how to control expiry etc.):
<map:pipeline type="caching"> <map:match pattern="authors"> ... And then include it from within the article.xsl using the cocoon: protocol, which is used to address a pipeline in the sitemap: <xsl:variable name="authors" select="document('cocoon:/authors')"/> Resources are used when you want to include the same series of components in more than one pipeline. I don't think a resource can do caching: that would be up to the pipelines in which it is called. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Des Magner [mailto:d...@icandriveatractor.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:24 AM To: users@cocoon.apache.org Subject: Can I pass a sitemap resource as a parameter to an xslt transformer? Hi I want to combine two pieces of XML that gets passed to my XSL transformation. I have a list of authors that needs only to be read once. I then have a page to edit different articles and this page must present the list of authors for selection. But I do not want to read the list of authors from the database every time an article needs to be edited. So I thought the best way to do this would be to define a resource that contains the list of authors and pass this as a parameter to the transformation for the article edit page as outlined below. Is it possible to somehow refer to the authors resource where I have placed the ???. Any help much appreciated Regards Des <map:resource name="authors"> <map:generate src="authors.xml"/> <map:transform type="sql"> <map:parameter name="use-connection" value="myConnection"/> </map:transform> </map:resource> <map:generate src="article.xml"/> <map:transform type="sql"> <map:parameter name="use-connection" value="myConnection"/> <map:parameter name="article-id" value="{request-param:article}"/> </map:transform> <map:transform src="article.xsl"> <map:parameter name="authors" value="{???}"/> </map:transform> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@cocoon.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@cocoon.apache.org