Harry,
This worked out pretty well for me, thanks!
(I was hoping to also perform the work of a Transformer
in the same XSP, but this is good enough for now...)
Thanks for the tip...
-Chris
"Lai, Harry" wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Instead of just using xsp:expr, you need to also use the util logicsheet
> (comes with Cocoon 2). If you have that logicsheet declared in the "util"
> namespace, for example, you can do the following in your XSP:
>
> ...
> <xsp:logic>
> MyXmlSource xmlSource = new MyXmlSource();
>
> ... init xmlSource and do whatever you need to prepare content ...
>
> String xmlContent = xmlSource.getContent();
>
>
> <util:include-expr><util:expr><xsp:expr>xmlContent</xsp:expr></util:expr></u
> til:include-expr>
> </xsp:logic>
> ...
>
> If you do this, the xml generated by your source will be included as xml
> elements, not just as a string. Hope that helps!
>
> Harry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: XSP + Dynamic XML generator ??
>
> I am working on a project where we have a datasource
> which produces XML based on certain parameters. I would
> like to use this as input to an XSP page which defines
> overall content structure (semantics) then, finally,
> apply a stylsheet appropriate for the invoking client.
>
> Problem: It seems that a pipeline must start
> with one, and only one Generator. The problem is
> that if I create an implementation of Generator
> which produces the XML, then I cannot use XSP
> (since the XSP code handler is itself a Generator).
>
> I then tried to implement the XML generator from an
> XSP page by invoking a method using xsp:expr, but then
> the whole document is treated as a single string.
>
> What I would like to do is some thig like:
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> +---------------+
> | XML Generator |
> +------+--------+
> |
> v
> +---------------+
> | XSP structure |
> +------+--------+
> |
> +------v-----------+
> | XSL presentation |
> +------+-----------+
> |
> +------v--------+
> | Serializer |
> +---------------+
>
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