Re: Use of flowscript (was: EJB + Cocoon, "Best Practices")

[Sylvain Wallez]

Reinhard Poetz wrote:

From: Tim Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

   

activities often have results which need to be displayed by
the generated page, and the emission of XML seems very 
natural to me.
       

ah, okay. this requirement is neither an argument for nor against 
flowscript (it should be very easy to implement it using flowscript)
     

oh?  i'd like to hear about that.
   

as you described your scenario you collect xml streams and write them in
some store (whatever this store is - maybe an object in the users's
session). This can be easily done with flowscript.
Then, to provide a view of your store can be done using a pipeline with
a generator capable reading this store.
Yep. It's as simple as storing DOM nodes or objects implementing 
XMLizable in request attributes and outputing them in an XSP with an 
<xsp:expr><request:get-attribute name="foo"/></xsp:expr>

Sylvain

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