About the Source vs Generator issue: I found a post by Sylvain [1]. It 
does not separate the Source and Generator concepts completely but the 
bottom line seems to be
- If you have a format with some "natural" xml respresentation, it's a 
source (Like Excel->MS's Excel-XML?)
- If you have a binary format which needs to be parsed to XML, it's a 
generator (Like XLS -> Gnumeric?)


        Sven

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=102576977207135&w=2

  Andrew C. Oliver schrieb:
> Explain, elaborate.
> 
> 2 Why would you want to do it at the transformation point?
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> Sven Kuenzler wrote:
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>> Something that just came to me thinking of the dicussion about an 
>> ExcelGenerator: What about implementing it as (Writeable)Source 
>> instead? That way you could use it with SourceWritingTransformer and 
>> friends, not only as pipeline starting point.
>>
>>      Sven
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