> True true, and thank you Peter. I should have clarified, not lack of object hierarchy and polymorphism, > but lack of perfect or ...traditional. Some deny a comparison between xslt and oop languages. My > discussion with the colleague was brief; I cannot interpret his experience perfectly. The serious > problem apparently was synching xml, xslt with changes in the underlying object model.
There are ways to do this automatically as well, both at run time and at design time. Perhaps they need to look at something like Castor? Or, if your careful your underlying model can be generated from a design that should be capable of generating XML as much as it is Java stubs... In such a model the XSLT is independent of the OO model (running over it, as it where). > I drew a parallel with OODBMS, a solution which still defies popularity. Yes, we're doing an OO to relational mapping (sigh/shrug). But there are reasons for it in spite of what the OODBMS people might try to sell you. > Meanwhile, Jsp and struts continue to preside over cocoon, much to my disappointment. It's a hard sell, > while they are an easy sell. No one gets fired over choosing Oracle, Weblogic, jsp followed by > MacDonald's for lunch. The sell shouldn't be as much Cocoon as it is dynamic UI and/or dynamic data models... If you don't expect to _ever_ change your UI and you only have one of them then JSP makes sense, otherwise you need something else.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>