I am missing something when it comes to getting and passing request arguments. I've looked at the cocoon examples, and although my test example appears to match the cocoon one in every way there is obviously something fundamental missing.
I think I'm pretty close. :) If anyone could help me get past this misunderstanding it would be much appreciated. My example scenario allows the user to enter a URL like the following: http://hostname/example/colour.html?person=Phil%20Blake The result would be a HTML page with the person's favorite colour. In the sitemap I added a generic matcher that matches anything .html and returns the corresponding xsp. I figured (as opposed to read anywhere in documentation) that I needed to include the use-request-parameters and use-browser-capabilities-db parameters - I don't know why I want them, just that they appeared in the cocoon sitemap. <!-- Match *.html and map to *.xsp --> <map:match pattern="**.html"> <map:generate type="serverpages" src="{1}.xsp"/> <map:transform src="Example.xsl"> <map:parameter name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/> <map:parameter name="use-browser-capabilities-db" value="true"/> </map:transform> <map:serialize/> </map:match> The requested xsp page looks like this. (colour.xsp) <xsp:page language="java" xmlns:xsp="http://apache.org/xsp"; xmlns:xsp-request="http://apache.org/xsp/request/2.0"; xmlns:xsp-response="http://apache.org/xsp/response/2.0";> <xsp:logic> String person = null; </xsp:logic> <html> <title>The favorite colour page - Yay"</title> <xsp:logic> person = <xsp-request:get-parameter name="person"/>; </xsp:logic> <xsp:expr>person</xsp:expr> has a favorite colour! It is <person-colour/> </html> </xsp:page> I then have a half/broken stylesheet that is supposed to select the person named in the URL person path arg. Then return their favorite colour. However, as you'll notice, I can't see how to get from the first line, to the second one. I assume the variable selectedPerson contains a person node. (I don't know 'cause I can't make it work). However, I have no idea how to use that variable to retrieve the colour. XSL Stylesheet: <xsl:template match="person-colour"> <!-- Select the person, somehow --> <xsl:variable name="selectedPerson" select="document('people.xml',.)/people/person[name='$person']"/> <!-- return their favorite colour, somehow --> <xsl:value-of select="$selectedPerson/favoriteColour"> </xsl:template> XML External Content (people.xml) <people> <person> <name>Phil</name> <favoriteColour>blue</favoriteColour> </person> <person> <name>Arthur</name> <favoriteColour>yellow</favoriteColour> </person> </people> Thanks for your help. Have fun, Phil --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
