Jochen Kuhnle wrote:
Hi Sylvain,
I agree that generated sitemaps are a somewhat more sophisticated use of Cocoon. However, I think it is a nice feature to have. My main reason for this is that I want to hide the nuts and bolts of sitemaps from site maintainers and just want to give them a limited subset (or high-level XML description) for the one specific site that is easy to understand and maintain. So why not pre-generate it? So no-one ever forgets to do it!
Hmm... same use case as Gianugo. Is it possible for these files to be changed directly on the live site, or is this part of some kind of deployment operation?
I found that it is quite efficient to generate the sitemap dynamically. Since the sitemap-pipeline is created by a developer who knows more about this stuff (including caching) than a maintainer, I think we can assume it will be cacheable. Of course optimum support here would be to have the map:mount code write "DANGER! Your sitemap pipeline is not cacheable" to the log, but I don't think this is necessary.
In addition, I can think of use cases where specifiable contexts might come in handy even for "normal" sitemaps. One is that you maybe want to differentiate access rights to sitemaps from access rights to content. With a specifiable context, you could move all sitemaps into a special sitemap-directory (or tree), separate from the content, and still avoid ugly directory traversal prefixes to content files (<map:generate type="jx" src="../../../path/to/the/content/directory/page.jx"/>). You get "nicer" sitemaps, and you just have to set file permissions on two directories (the sitemap and the site directory) instead of each and every file.
What you need here is a global variable that can be used as a prefix, thus writing <map:generate src="{global:base}/page.jx"/>
And if you find it too verbose, what you need is the sitemap to be able to define it's own context (i.e. <map:sitemap context="../../../path/to/the/content/directory">, see my previous post) and not have this context be defined externally.
Sylvain
-- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://apache.org/~sylvain http://anyware-tech.com Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director
