Le 23 nov. 04, à 15:36, Laurent Perez a écrit :
...What I am looking for is an editor being able to handle Cocoon-based websites : for example, something being able to traverse a sitemap, find all matching patterns, build a tree of patterns, output the resulting xml flows (from xsp or jx sources), and visually edit elements of the xsl sheet....
I don' think you'll find something today that will make people coming from a visual Dreamweaver-like environment comfortable with Cocoon. I'd love to be proven wrong though, but it's not only the XSLT, there are the sitemaps, database access code, etc. as you have noticed.
Depending on the size and scope of your project, it might be interesting to create some "adaptors" to make it possible for your people to design publishing templates more or less as they're doing today and use them in Cocoon. But there's (AFAIK) no turnkey solution to do this today, and it's not a trivial project.
Another interesting possibility would be to use Cocoon as a back-end for database access and XML data generation only, and couple this (REST-like probably) with your existing PHP/Dreamweaver setup used as a front-end only. For the back-end you'll need more technical skills than your team (IIUC) has today, but the potential improvements in flexibility and data exchanges might be well worth it.
And yes, we don't recommend using XSP for new projects, most of this community's efforts are focused on the "Power Trio" (Pipelines, Flow, Forms) today.
If yours is basically a database reporting application, XReporter (http://www.cocoondev.org/xreporter) might be an option maybe.
Finally, here's my shameless plug of the day: you might find my GT 2004 presentation interesting on these subjects, it's available at http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi under "material from events / gt 2004".
Hope this helps! -Bertrand
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