Hi, I'm working on a project that will generate OpenOffice.org document from data extracted from a database. Our aim is to automatise the publishing of the program of hikes for my hikers association. It is actually done with a Microsoft Word document merge and it is not satisfying. PDF is not an option as publishers have to do additionnal editing after the automatic step. The output document will be many pages long, so we want to process in batch instead of as a web application.
As OpenOffice.org document format is XML, I would like to reuse the Cocoon pipeline with an ESQL transformer from a simple Java application. My question are : - is it possible ? I mean, is it possible to reuse just the pipeline in a standard Java application, without the sitemap and servlet stuff, without too much code or too many dependencies. The pipeline would be either hard-coded or specified with a simpler sitemap-like configuration file. - how ? The package org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline seems interesting, but I don't know which class to use and how to build a simple pipeline with a generator, a transformer and serialiser. Then, how to feed the pipeline ? Could you point me to the important classes, and the order to create them ? Thank you for your help, Olivier Mengué --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
