Dear List,

is it possible to actually read an entry from a XML database with the XMLDBTransformer? According to the javadocs at

http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/apidocs/index.html

this transformer can carry out resource creation, deletion, and XUpdate command execution, but there is no mention about simply reading (or extracting) an entry, for instance using XPath, e.g. /persons/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo']. It is quite possible to accomplish this through XInclude,

<xi:include href="cocoon://persons/foo" />

(I have XIndice running as a separate servlet). This however fails if the person with id 'foo' does not exist.

I would like to be able to emply the XMLDBTransformer (in a similar style as SQLTransformer) for this purpose. One reason is that XMLDBTransformer returns an error message, like

   <db:query type="update" oid="xmldb-object-id" result="failure">
     Resource xmldb-object-id is not found
   </db:query>

if something is wrong.

How would I be able to simply read from a XML database using XMLDBTransformer?

Thanks,

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Andre H. Juffer              | Phone: +358-8-553 1161
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    the Dep. of Biochemistry | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Oulu, Finland  | WWW: www.biochem.oulu.fi/Biocomputing/

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