> People, > > I would like to know why you use Cocoon? > > Thank you, > > Edgar >
Hi, I heard about Cocoon when I was searching a solution to a very precise problem. The client for whom I'm working uses lots of XML files to define the characteristics of numerous parameters representing an engine. It looks like a database, but unfortunately it's not a database. Just a big set of XML files using a little set of DTDs. The problem was : to allow someone, who doesn't know XML at all, to edit and modify the content of these files in an easy way. We could have developed a specific editor in C++, but the DTDs are still evolving a lot, and there was also a big need to generate other formats of documents, such as HTML and XLS. I first wrote a few XSL stylesheets in order to visualize the content of the XML files in a nice way, in a web browser (I used IE6). Then I heard about Cocoon and realised that it could feed my needs, with a little help from JavaScript. I now have a nice Cocoon-based editor working in my web browser : I can display the content of the XML files in HTML pages, edit and modify them dynamically thanks to HTML forms, and make lots of specific search requests. It works like a web site, with several sub-sections and lots of automatically generated hyperlinks. And it's easy to use. When a DTD is modified, I do not need to recompile anything : I just modify the corresponding XSL stylesheets and JavaScript scripts. Indeed, it's really efficient and easily maintainable. And my client is happy ! :) Matthieu --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
