Steven Punte wrote: >In the cocoon environment, XSP provides a great >way of address problems that don't fit into >the paradigm of an existing generator. > >However, XSP can only be used at the first >step in a pipeline. > >I find myself writing lots of custom transformers >to address issues that don't fit into any >of the existing standard generators. > >Would there be a way to write an XSP Transformer? >How about we call this "XST" for now. >
I have prototype working, I named it XSPT. Did not had time to complete. I was thinking to implement XSPT on top of STX language (http://stx.gingerall.cz/stx/). Vadim > Some of >it's characteristics would be: > >o A conventional transformer class would exits. >o In a pipeline, one would specify the above > transformer and a particular xst file. >o The xst file would be compile automatically > when needed. >o A basic internal design would simply allow > hooks to the various SAX events (i.e. start and > end of element and document). >o Output events could be nicely written as in xsp > like "<yada><xst:expr>string</xst:expr></yada>" >o Perhaps a more a more interesting internal > model would come with a stack to facilitate > more complex processing. > >Steve Punte >Candlelight Software > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
