On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 21:36, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Stephen McConnell wrote: > > Conclusion: Anikia is *much* easier to use but less consistent than > > Cocoon. > > IE Anakia doesn't complain if you make errors. > Cocoon does, but it's difficult to understand what it says. > > Also, you should know where to put the images with the current Cocoon > setup and know that to link to local docs *without* checking the link, > you must use "dir/dir/". > I've committed this change in all the projects moved to Cocoon and wrote > is some times on the list, thought it was known.
which doesn't make it less annoying =) It'd be real nice if cocoon, on finding a link, would try and locate the xml file for it, and if it can't find said xml file, would make a note of this in the log and then would happily leave the link untouched. That way, only when you get file not found errors will you wonder what the problem is; and you'll be able to read about it in the log files. As an aside, we really do need some docs on the cocoon site generation in CVS (like a README.COCOON.txt inside jakarta-avalon/tools mini-howto)... > > Cocoon appears to have a strong document model and overall > > presents as a more powerful platform but has seriouse problems in error > > management resulting in making it unusable in the time I had available. > > It's wrong to say that Cocoon is harder to use, it's just very difficult > for non-Cocooners to understand what the error messages are about. err...if it is hard for non-cocooners to understand what the error messages are about, that makes it harder to use =) And if there are so many error messages you apparantly don't need to worry about (like a 100 lines of ZipExceptions everytime you run), they get in the way of the error messages which point you in the direction of your mistake. Last time I checked, the full cocoon distro had a 10 meg jar file, 3 books in the works, and a site full of architecture docs (I estimate about a hundred pages when printed). Anakia has like a 300kb jar file (of which 90% is general velocity) and I think about 5 pages of docs. IOW: cocoon is a lot more powerful and complex. This naturally means that for a simple task (generating a website from xml), it is more difficult to use. just the way it is :) cheers, - Leo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
