Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-05 Thread Derek Hohls
I see it says: The tool has a command-line interface I wonder how feasible it would be to convert into a module usable by Cocoon (including the 2.1.x series) from within a sitemap? On 2009/03/05 at 09:08, in message gontok$lr...@ger.gmane.org, Luca Morandini lmorand...@ieee.org wrote:

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-05 Thread Philippe GAUTHIER
Hello all, I would personnaly use cocoon for its pipelines and to control the workflow of data (step 1). But I would use BIRT ( http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/ ) as the rendering engine which has a great UI for designer and cover all the format he wants (step 2). Best regards, Philippe

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-05 Thread Jean-Christophe Kermagoret
Hi, Birt is not the right tool to make very customized outputs like CVs. Layout is very limited and I think xhtml+css is more powerful. JC Philippe GAUTHIER a écrit : Hello all, I would personnaly use cocoon for its pipelines and to control the workflow of data (step 1). But I would use BIRT

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-05 Thread Philippe GAUTHIER
Hello, Well Birt use css-styles under the hood, you can even prepare them before hand. You can even embed html, background images are supported, ... A good exemple : http://www.richclient2.eu/2006_11_17/eclipse-birt-a-cases-study/ So what would be thoses limitations exactly? I would more expect a

Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Fernando
Hi, First of all, I'm a newbie, so please bear with me in case any question is unacceptably idiotic. O:-) newbie-asbestos-underwear I'm considering Cocoon for a new project, but being completely new to this area I'm not 100% sure if it's the right tool for the job. I need to generate

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Luca Morandini
Fernando wrote: Can Cocoon help with Step 2 without requiring significant programming on my side? Definitively. Where can I find examples of layout and format definitions for Cocoon? Some pointers: http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/howto/howto-html-pdf-publishing.html

RE: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Fernando
Hi Luca, -Original Message- Can Cocoon help with Step 2 without requiring significant programming on my side? Definitively. Just to make sure, are layouts like these possible? http://jobmob.co.il/blog/more-beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/ Thanks!

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Andre Juffer
Fernando wrote: Hi Luca, -Original Message- Can Cocoon help with Step 2 without requiring significant programming on my side? Definitively. Just to make sure, are layouts like these possible? http://jobmob.co.il/blog/more-beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/ Many, if not all,

RE: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Fernando
Just to make sure, are layouts like these possible? http://jobmob.co.il/blog/more-beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/ Many, if not all, of these layouts can be created with CSS. Cocoon would return clean (X)HTML (and many other formats) without any particular style information. You

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Andre Juffer
Fernando wrote: Just to make sure, are layouts like these possible? http://jobmob.co.il/blog/more-beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/ Many, if not all, of these layouts can be created with CSS. Cocoon would return clean (X)HTML (and many other formats) without any particular style information.

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Mika Lehtonen
Hi Fernando, I guess you would have to produce your PDF (PS) through Apache FOP. According to my experience, you can easily end up into big troubles with it, because a) you have to design your templates by coding and if there is a graphical editor available for XSL-FO (don't know), you

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Luca Morandini
Fernando wrote: Just to make sure, are layouts like these possible? http://jobmob.co.il/blog/more-beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/ Many, if not all, of these layouts can be created with CSS. Cocoon would return clean (X)HTML (and many other formats) without any particular style information.

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Mika Lehtonen
Indeed it's an *interesting* assignment. Two things popped up in my mind: 1) Using Cocoon's sitemap and its components can be very enlightening experience. They really do are powerfull. 2) While looking your examples, I can't help myself thinking what you really are expecting Cocoon to be.

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Luca Morandini
Mika Lehtonen wrote: 2) While looking your examples, I can't help myself thinking what you really are expecting Cocoon to be. Usually creating fancy layouts with numerous graphics and effects are connected in our minds to software with a powerful graphical user interface. What can you do

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Mika Lehtonen
Luca, first of all, you're right about the thing that we do know almost nothing about the overall architecture. I seem to have a sort of a bias nowadays. Forgive me that. It just when I was looking http://jobmob.co.il/blog/more-beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/ examples and wondering if those

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Luca Morandini
Mika Lehtonen wrote: Secondly, I used that plus sign as an AND operator in order the reader to differ these two concepts which in principal aren't even parallel and are two individual concepts. I can see I failed in that. Well, I failed to notice the plus sign ;) What I meant, is that in

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Jean-Christophe Kermagoret
Hi, Just have a look at the following link: * http://re.be/css2xslfo/index.xhtml Used in conjunction with Cocoon, I think it could be a kill app. JC Luca Morandini a écrit : Fernando wrote: Just to make sure, are layouts like these possible?

Re: Is Cocoon the right tool?

2009-03-04 Thread Luca Morandini
Jean-Christophe Kermagoret wrote: Hi, Just have a look at the following link: * http://re.be/css2xslfo/index.xhtml Used in conjunction with Cocoon, I think it could be a kill app. Wow ! Looks great. Luca Morandini www.lucamorandini.it