Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Haul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: XML input module (was: RE: Nice changes!) > > > On 02.Oct.2002 -- 09:47 AM, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: > > This is likely an issue you're going to run into also; mapping XPath to > > random session objects might be possible, but I suspect the two domains > > aren't perfectly isomorphic :-( > > Yes, but since we don't need to work on strings, less so. All these > modules work on Objects and only on some occasions you really want > strings. In the sitemap for example. > > [a highly interesting discussion snipped] > > > No more matchers, no more selectors; just XSLT templates ;-)... Seriously, > > once (if?) XSLT 2 gains regex capabilities I can't really see why a pure > > XSLT pipeline couldn't do everything that matchers and selectors do, therby > > eliminating huge chunks of the current Cocoon code base? > > Maybe, maybe not. One would need to use a lot extension functions to > achieve similar things (e.g. j2ee, databases and stuff) but that might > be portable to other pipeline systems (?). OTOH Apache Cocoon a lot > about SoC and it will need to be seen if that works as well with your > suggested approach.
Instead of extensions you could use custom URIResolvers to return the result from anywhere (or just do something and return succes/fail) to an representation usable by a transformation. The separation occurs in the resolver which can be configured to handle your particular needs. best, -Rob > > I believe, many would be interested in your approach. I hope you find > the time to work on it. > > Chris. > -- > C h r i s t i a n H a u l > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > fingerprint: 99B0 1D9D 7919 644A 4837 7D73 FEF9 6856 335A 9E08 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
