http://wshager.blogspot.nl/2013/02/abandoning-hope-and-xforms.html
18.2.2013 18:44, Jos Snellings kirjoitti:
Nice overview!
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:23 PM, gelo1234 <gelo1...@gmail.com
<mailto:gelo1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
IMHO if you are dealing with XML data, there are only two valid
choices: XSLT or XQuery.
Both can be used with Cocoon. XSLT is standard Cocoon supported
(by XSLTTransformer),
XQuery support for Cocoon exists in XQueryGenerator from eXistDB
(http://www.exist-db.org)
Whin one to use ? :) I prefer XSLT, but you can choose the other
[1]. XSLT has the best support in Cocoon.
XSLT is much simpler in my opinion and it enables us to generate
ANY Content/Transformation with XML data.
XSLT is pretty well supported in most IDEs, be it Eclipse or NetBeans.
Im not aware of any stack/framework that could be built on top of
XSLT (as a superset?). Actually XSLT is pretty much 4GL [2]. It is
declarative in its form so simple and yet with LEGO-like Cocoon
sitemaps approach best suited for very clean/RAD apps.
I also suggest taking a diversed approach to development with
Cocoon. What I mean by diversed is that you don't necessarily have
to stick
to Cocoon tools only. In its 3.0 release Cocoon is considered to
be used across different development environments, even in its
simplest form
as a library for e.g. Java EE or Spring application.
Personally I prefer to use it as a mediation proxy with ESB-like
features and use the right tools/frameworks for your job.
For me it means: Java on server, Javascript/HTML on the client.
Using Java on the client side in terms of Web app (as its with
Wicket) is IMHO very bad and ugly idea.
Other indirect uses of Java thats compiled into Javascript (like
GWT, Vaadin, Errai,....) is also kind of obscure and heavy-weight.
I dare to claim they will loose its share in future HTML5 development.
Just use the right (and LIGHTWEIGHT ;) tool for your job :)
Greetings,
Greg
[1] www.w3.org/2006/Talks/0525-www2006-Kay.pdf
<http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/0525-www2006-Kay.pdf>
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language
2013/2/18 Mika M Lehtonen <m...@digikartta.net
<mailto:m...@digikartta.net>>
Yep,
but as I started this chain, I stated that my problem is to
"convert" my own defined dynamic XML into HTML4 (or HTML5)
forms. I was looking something to replace Cforms (not just
plain XSLT). I am also considering to move to C3 because as I
stated earlier, developing without tools is hard. If I could
take e.g. NetBeans and continue with that, I would be better
off in the long run.
I was considering Apache Wickets because some integration has
been done with C3, but right now it doesn't seem to be a real
option.
HTML5 is still hype from my point of view.
- mika -
18.2.2013 15:50, gelo1234 kirjoitti:
HTML5 in its basics is a superset of HTML4. If you don't use
HTML5-specific tags/spec you go well with old good HTML4.
The original issue was NOT whether to use HTML5 or old HTML,
but whether to use CForms or just raw XHTML/HTML (4 or 5) forms.
If you like to have HTML5 goodies in browsers that support
it, just use e.g. Cocoon Actions in Sitemap OR Advanced
Sitemap Matchers OR in REST-Controller by inspecting HTTP
Headers return different Page that generate a different
Content (with XSLT) for IE8.
Greetings,
-Greg
2013/2/18 Mika M Lehtonen <m...@digikartta.net
<mailto:m...@digikartta.net>>
Also HTML5 support for IE seems to be weak, even for IE9.
There are still lot of people using IE8 or even older
browser + lot of people in some sort of governmental
offices using their own versions..
We can't sell apps without IE-support, absolutely no way.
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/
<http://people.mozilla.com/%7Eprouget/ie9/>
- mika -
18.2.2013 14:45, Robby Pelssers kirjoitti:
The only thing I wonder about is...
Cocoon and neither XSLT2.0 support html5
serialization for all I know. So does someone using
Cocoon already generate HTML5 content with Cocoon and
how did you accomplish this.
Cheers,
Robby
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From: Mika M Lehtonen [mailto:m...@digikartta.net
<mailto:m...@digikartta.net>]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 1:42 PM
To: users@cocoon.apache.org
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Subject: Re: from Cforms to Wicket
Ok,
thanks for your efforts. HTML5 it is, with or without C3.
- mika -
18.2.2013 14:25, Francesco Chicchiriccò kirjoitti:
On 18/02/2013 13:09, Mika M Lehtonen wrote:
Yeah,
I know what you mean. Most of the Xforms
sites are dated back to 2002
or 2003.. Sounds like a standard having
glorious future behind..
This betterForm still sounded proper for my
purposes because it
actually implements server-side approache of
Xforms. So I could use
Xforms definition for producing HTML-forms,
if I understood right. It
actually resembles a lot of Cforms with a
difference that it seems to
be under development taking contemporary
challenges into account.
"under development" with latest release 4.1
dating 1 year back [1]
But would I still need C3 (or C2.11 / C2.2)?
It depends on you, and on how much effort do you
want to put on this
task.
Anyway, not necessarily, even though Cocoon will
help in you in the
XML side if the job.
I would like to get familiar with C3 if I
only could figure out how
to start.
The biggest problem with C2.11, IMHO, was not
having proper
development tools to use. I ended up writing
files with Notepad++.
And I never realized how to do debugging..
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/betterform/files/
18.2.2013 10:48, Francesco Chicchiriccò
kirjoitti:
On 17/02/2013 21:57, Mika M Lehtonen wrote:
How about some XForms implementation
like this
http://www.betterform.de?
Sounds promising..
I personally wouldn't bet much on XForms...
Regards.
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