Sounds like a hammer looking for a nail

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Ichiro Furusato
<ichiro.furus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hah! Just found XsltTransformerBehavior. I'm now thinking
> about an XML database web service, lots of possibilities.
> Wicket may have a lot of more general-purpose XML application.
>
> Hmmm...
>
>
> On 9/25/10, Ichiro Furusato <ichiro.furus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ernesto,
>>
>> Yes, that was the plan (in terms of delivering DocBook), I just
>> wasn't sure how tightly Wicket is itself tied to HTML. I hadn't
>> thought of Igor's suggestion (being new to Wicket) so I'll check
>> out how to add behaviours (didn't realise it could be that simple,
>> though with Wicket I shouldn't be too surprised) --but this
>> sounds like a plan...
>>
>> Thanks much,
>>
>> Ichiro
>>
>>
>> On 9/25/10, Igor Vaynberg <igor.vaynb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> or dump docbook into a label and add an xslt transformer behavior to the
>>> label.
>>>
>>> -igor
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro
>>> <reier...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ichiro,
>>>>
>>>> Can't you just override
>>>>
>>>> public String getMarkupType()
>>>>        {
>>>>                return "html";
>>>>        }
>>>>
>>>> on WebPage class and return "xml" and generate whatever (well formed)
>>>> XML you need? Besides that you could put a filter in front of that
>>>> page and do whatever post-processing you need.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ernesto
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Ichiro Furusato
>>>> <ichiro.furus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not asking anyone to solve this one (ie., write any code), just
>>>>> tell me *how* it might be done via Wicket, if it's possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> In one of my earlier messages regarding validation of Wicket
>>>>> pages, Jeremy Thomerson replied that Wicket "only generates
>>>>> whatever HTML you want it to generate" and that got me thinking,
>>>>> why generate HTML (or XHTML) at all? Why not use Wicket as a
>>>>> means of generating something like DocBook or TEI?
>>>>>
>>>>> This raises two questions:
>>>>>
>>>>>  1. In looking into the Wicket code there are places that mention
>>>>>      HTML/XHTML markup, but they don't seem part of the core
>>>>>      functionality of Wicket. Is there anything that might keep me
>>>>>      from generating DocBook instead of HTML? If Wicket is too
>>>>>      tied into HTML (e.g., org.apache.wicket.markup.html.*) to be
>>>>>      able to do this, what would it take to abstract the HTML-based
>>>>>      functionality so that Wicket could serve any XML markup?
>>>>>
>>>>>  2. If I were going to use the above to generate DocBook with
>>>>>      the idea that Wicket's servlet then sent that through an
>>>>>      XSLT post-processor, would this *only* require changes to
>>>>>      the Wicket servlet prior to fulfilling the servlet response?
>>>>>      That *seems* to be the case, but I'm still learning Wicket.
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically, one could conceivably use Wicket in this mode as a
>>>>> replacement for Apache Cocoon, but it'd be *much* simpler
>>>>> and potentially very powerful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just an idea I'm exploring... would potentially have wide usage.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks much!
>>>>>
>>>>> Ichiro
>>>>>
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