Re: xindice (1.1b3) and cocoon (2.1.4) -- Help!

[Upayavira]

Anthony Santangelo wrote:
Hi!
I'm new to this list, and to Xindice. I'm having trouble 
getting Xindice itegrated with Cocoon.

Xindice (1.1b3) is running under Tomcat (4.1.29). No 
probems using the command-line interface (with option
-c xmldb:xindice://localhost:8080/db).

I built a Cocoon .war from last night's 2.1.4-dev source;
unpacked it in Tomcat. Again, no problems.
(This is all running on the JVM from Sun j2sdk, 1.4.2_03.)
I start up Tomcat with the option -Dxindice-configuration=
<my path>/webapps/xindice/WEB-INF/system.xml, as recommended
on the Cocoon Wiki page XMLXindiceCocoon2.1. 

Otherwise, everything is "out of the box."
Now i run into confusion:
1. When i tried the "init" link on the xmldb samples page, 
  the following things succeeded:

  - create collection "cocoon"
  - import samples.xml
  - import samples.xml as "xsamples.xml"
  Everything else failed. I looked at all the files; couldn't
  grasp why the other imports failed when "import samples.xml"
  worked.
2. A directory named "cocoon" has in fact been added to my
  db directory. It contains the file cocoon.tbl.
  But i can't see this collection using the Xindice command-
  line.
3. I use the Xindice command-line to create and populate a
  "testcol" collection.
  I CAN see this collection with both the Xindice command-line
  AND the XMLDB Browser from the Cocoon samples.
  In fact, i can run queries against the collection from the
  XMLDB Browser.
4. I try the following sitemap fragment:
  <map:match pattern="xindicetest">
    <map:generate 
         source="xmldb:xindice://localhost:8080/db/testcol/#/*" />
    <map:serialize type="xml" />
  </map:match>

  I get the following error message:
  Could not setup pipeline.: 
  java.net.MalformedURLException: Invalid System ID

  Tried a bunch of variations, with the same result.
5. I check cocoon.xconf, just in case. Everything looks right 
  (as described on the Cocoon wiki page i mentioned earlier).

I'm groping in the darkness. I've been at this for several
very late nights, first with eXist, now with Xindice. Any 
insight that anyone can offer will be *very* much appreciated.
 

The xmldb examples in Cocoon all use Xindice in embedded mode - 
therefore you don't need (in fact shouldn't) be running it as a servlet. 
Thus, your uris will be xmldb:xindice-embed:///db/etc...

If you want to use it just in Cocoon, there's really no reason to use it 
any other way.

Regards, Upayavira
Thanks to all--especially to any Cocoon or Xindice committers 
who may be reading this list: you rock!

-- tony