Thank you both very much! I would've never discovered how this works by myself.
As it turned out I had to do a combination of both your answers and a
liitle experimentation to make things work. For future reference
here's what I had to do:
Add in sitemap.xmap *two* things:
(a) a new generator componet:
<map:components>
<map:generators>
<map:generator name="sxw" label="content" logger="sitemap.generator.sxw"
src="org.apache.forrest.generation.SXWGenerator"/>
<map:generator name="xpathdirectory"
src="org.apache.cocoon.generation.XPathDirectoryGenerator" />
<map:generator name="directory"
src="org.apache.cocoon.generation.DirectoryGenerator"/>
</map:generators>
...
(b) A new match-pattern (how are these things called anyway?) in the
standard pipeline.
<map:match pattern="**buildings/building-table.xml">
<map:generate type="xpathdirectory"
src="{project:content.xdocs}{1}buildings">
<map:parameter name="xpath" value="/building"/>
<map:parameter name="include" value="\.*-bld.xml$"/>
</map:generate>
<map:transform
src="{project:resources.stylesheets}/buildingtable2document.xsl" />
<map:serialize type="xml"/>
</map:match>
Here I used the xpathdirectory, proposed by Evangelos, because the
directory generator used in the resume example was not selecting any
node. I still don't understand which is the root element of the
aggregation and I don't know how to debug in forrest to find out. I
just matched the root element with "/" in the xsl.
I also added the above in the sitemap.xmap, instead of the input.xml,
because I don't find any reason why the input.xmap file needs to
exist. Maybe it has a reason if you speak about seperate modules and
plugins, but none for a single project.
Another point in the resume example that I had to change is the value
of the "src" field of the xpathdirectory generator from
{property:content.xdocs}{1}buildings
to
{project:content.xdocs}{1}buildings
I think the resume example needs to be corrected there, unless there
is something different in the cvs version of forrest.
Thanks again for your help, and I wish in the future there will be a
*real* reference document for forrest and cocoon. (See Java's API
reference to see how I think it should look like.)
--Vassilis
On 3/3/07, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
> Vassilis Koutavas wrote:
>> What is the right way to create one aggregated xml file from all the
>> xml files in a directory?
>
> Take a look at the resume input plugin in the whiteboard in SVN head [1]
Sorry forgot the URL
[1]
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/forrest/trunk/whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.Resume/input.xmap?revision=431247&view=markup
Ross
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Vassilis
