ok, following Christian's piece of advice/explaination (creating a *_new instance_*) made it work although I have some bugs I will check tomorrow.
My only worry about global-parameters was that the initial proposal implied a {/name_of_param} path that doesn't work for now (I did not look into the code though). I also have a pretty complicated (long) pipeline (pasted below but now with the use of input modules, so everything prefixed by "baepp" may be also a global parameter), and use of global parameters with level 6 depth in the path kept failing : {../../../../../../taminoserver}. I tried step by step, every level. Anyway it was unreadable this way... and I could not reach my XML database. How strange. Sorry I am not very knowledgeable :-( Barbara <!-- default generation of license (4) : shows a form to fill--> <!-- Create form validation descriptor from template (tamino query) then try to validate form. If form validation fails generate form, if success generate licence and license info form. --> <map:match pattern="defaultgenerationform2fill"> <!-- this will have to deal with error messages added by form check (5) --> <!-- be sure one gets the request parameters --> <map:act type="request"> <map:parameter name="parameters" value="true"/> <!-- authenticate as usual --> <map:act type="auth-protect"> <map:parameter name="handler" value="baepphandler"/> <!-- this wraps with action that checks whether "submittedOnce" request parameters exist, if so performs form validation since form has been submitted at least once, else generate input form --> <map:act type="request-exists"> <map:parameter name="parameters" value="submittedOnce"/> <!-- form validation --> <map:act type="form-validator"> <map:parameter name="descriptor" value="cocoon://getdescriptor/{../../template}"/> <map:parameter name="validate-set" value="default"/> <!-- ok so generate license and show it --> <map:act type="genlickey"> <map:parameter name="taminoUri" value="http://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baepp:tami nocollection}"/> <map:aggregate element="page"> <map:part element="template" src="xmldb:tamino://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baep p:taminocollection}/#Template[@Id='{../../../../template}']"/> <map:part element="reqparam" src="cocoon://httprequest"/> <map:part element="session" src="xml/getxml.xml"/> </map:aggregate> <map:transform type="session"/> <!-- create xml license excepted license key set to 32*0 --> <map:transform src="xsl/genlickey.xsl"> <map:parameter name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/> <map:parameter name="serialNumber" value="{serialNumber}"/> <map:parameter name="timeStamp" value="{timeStamp}"/> <map:parameter name="dateLicense" value="{dateLicense}"/> <map:parameter name="error" value="{error}"/> </map:transform> <!-- add MP5 key --> <map:transform src="xsl/MP5.xsl"/> <!-- insert in Tamino --> <map:transform src="xsl/insertandkeep.xsl"/> <map:transform type="xmldb"/> <!-- add session info --> <map:transform src="xsl/addsessioninfo.xsl"/> <map:transform type="session"/> <!-- treat response and either show license info or error page if insertion failed --> <map:transform src="xsl/dbresp.xsl"> <map:parameter name="taminoUri" value="http://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baepp:tami nocollection}"/> <map:parameter name="adminemailfrom" value="<snip>"/> <map:parameter name="adminemailto" value="<snip>"/> <map:parameter name="server" value="{baepp:taminoserver}"/> <map:parameter name="smtp" value="<snip>"/> </map:transform> <map:serialize type="html"/> </map:act> <!-- license generation failed --> <map:redirect-to uri="error?code=422003"/> </map:act> <!-- form validation failed so show input form --> <map:aggregate element="page"> <map:part element="mlform" src="cocoon://mlform"/> <map:part element="template" src="xmldb:tamino://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baep p:taminocollection}/#Template[@Id='{../../template}']"/> <map:part element="lickeymat" src="xmldb:tamino://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baep p:taminocollection}/#licKeyMat[@number='{../../licKeyMat}' and version/@versionnb='{../../version}']"/> <map:part element="plugging" src="xmldb:tamino://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baep p:taminocollection}/#Plugging[@product='{../../licKeyMat}' and @version='{../../version}']"/> <map:part element="checked" src="cocoon://getcheckedplugs"/> <map:part element="session" src="xml/getxml.xml"/> </map:aggregate> <map:transform type="session"/> <!-- generates form to fill --> <map:transform src="xsl/genlicform2fill.xsl"> <map:parameter name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/> </map:transform> <!-- keeps request params but not errors added by form validation --> <map:transform type="simple-form"/> <map:serialize type="html"/> </map:act> <!-- no form validation occured ever, generates input form --> <map:aggregate element="page"> <map:part element="mlform" src="cocoon://mlform"/> <map:part element="template" src="xmldb:tamino://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baep p:taminocollection}/#Template[@Id='{../template}']"/> <map:part element="lickeymat" src="xmldb:tamino://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baep p:taminocollection}/#licKeyMat[@number='{../licKeyMat}' and version/@versionnb='{../version}']"/> <map:part element="plugging" src="xmldb:tamino://{baepp:taminoserver}/tamino/{baepp:taminodatabase}/{baep p:taminocollection}/#Plugging[@product='{../licKeyMat}' and @version='{../version}']"/> <map:part element="checked" src="cocoon://getcheckedplugs"/> <map:part element="session" src="xml/getxml.xml"/> </map:aggregate> <map:transform type="session"/> <!-- generates form to fill --> <map:transform src="xsl/genlicform2fill.xsl"> <map:parameter name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/> </map:transform> <map:transform type="simple-form"/> <map:serialize type="html"/> </map:act> </map:act> </map:match> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Piroumian Konstantin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:30 PM Subject: RE: how to use Input Modules ? > Please let us know if you have any improvement suggestions or some real > use-cases regarding the input modules (or global parameters) > > > > > Please, do you have an idea when I can fully use sitemap > > global parameters ? With {../../ ... } it gets messy to read, > > and {/param} doesn't work for now... (10/03 CVS). > > Speaking frankly, I have no idea. Although, I've proposed the global > parameters idea, but they were implemented by Carsten. > > IMO, input modules cover almost all the tasks that global parameters solve > (except for the propogating values to sub-sitemaps in map:mount). > > -- > Konstantin > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>