> You don't understand the Cocoon2 concepts at all. I think you are deeply mistaken :-)
> It is nonsense to serve XML files with "their" XSL files : This is rubbish. Leave aside non-valid XML, as I don't use it. All valid XML documents adhere to a DTD by definition (omit Schemas, they're not relevant here). Each DTD has a stylesheet to render documents of its class. I require to serve the XML documents processed with the relevant XSL stylesheet into HTML. Each XSL stylesheet "belongs" to a DTD: that is, it is written to render documents written to that DTD. > the principle > is to separe data and presentation, ie XML source and XSL. Absolutely correct. This is what I do. I have a large number of XML files and a very small number of XSL files (one stylesheet per document type, modulo development). Each document type (in effect, DTD) has one stylesheet at any given point in time, so that all documents written to that DTD are served in a uniform format. Over time, a new format may be developed, at which stage it will be useful to be able to edit the sitemap to make all XML documents of a given type to use a new stylesheet. But this is a once-every-few-years task, not something I change every five minutes. > So you have to write a pipeline (or to copy/paste one from an existing > sitemap) to generate HTML stuff from XML by transforming it through XSL. > > The sample sitemap bundled with Cocoon offers these 'defaults' already. If that is so, why does it not transform my sample XML document with its accompanying XSL stylesheet? > Please read the docs and reffer to the samples. They will learn you much. I have. I learned a lot, but nothing that I wanted. > >But I don't want to *generate* any XML. I already have XML documents. > > > Yes, you want !!!! > In Cocoon2 terminology, "generate" means you generate SAX events from a > source. Ah. That's useful to know. Doubtless this is documented somewhere. But a quick scan of the docs shows generat[a-z]* is used with no explanation. > In your case, the source is an XML document. So you have to use : > <map:generate src="XXX.xml"/> No problem there. Thanks. ///Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
