Hi Irv, Eric,
Thank you very much for your replies. I guess I need to explain what I
am trying to achieve. There is a Bibliography object that encapsulates
an xml document (meta information about a text) together with its
presentation type (xml, html, tei, dublin core, etc.). Both are defined
by the user. There are style sheets for each of the presentation types.
I created a generator that gets the xml for bibliographies. Now the only
thing that's left is to convert the generic text meta-data into
appropriate format. I can easily do that by creating an action that
would return the presentation type:
<map:act type="text-presentation">
<map:parameter name="bibliography" value="{request-param:biblId}"/>
<map:generate type="bibliographies" src="{request-param:biblId}"/>
<map:select type="parameter">
<map:parameter name="parameter-selector-test"
value="{presentation}"/>
<map:when test="tei">
<map:transform src="styles/text2tei.xsl"/>
<map:serialize type="xml"/>
</map:when>
<map:when test="html">
<map:transform src="styles/text2html.xsl"/>
<map:serialize type="html"/>
</map:when>
....
</map:select>
</map:act>
So in this case the action gets the bibl id, reads the bibl from the
back end, and returns its type to the sitemap (available as
{presentation}). The generator then reads the same object based on bibl
id and generates the SAX event for the xml stored in it. Now, based on
the parameter retrieved by the action, appropriate xsl is selected.
Sure enough it's possible to include the parameter into the XML produced
by the generator, but in that case I will need to use cincludes to get
the content that I want based on that parameter (AFAIK, SAX events can't
affect the pipeline processing). It's an excellent idea, however, I will
definitely apply it sometime later.
I really hoped that it is possible to send a param from a generator to
the sitemap, this way I can save one db access and a few lines in the
sitemap. If that is not possible, I guess, I will end up implementing
what I just described here.
Thank you very much once again.
Sincerely,
Nick.
Irv Salisbury wrote:
I think the other problem you are going to have in getting a solution
to this is that the parameters, actions, etc are all evaluated before
your sitemap is actually processed. So, I can't think of a way to
accomplish exactly what you are looking for.
On 8/27/05, Eric Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it's probably a dumb question but... why don't you include this parameter
directly in the xml generated by the generator ?
maybe you have a good reason or some sort of limitation .. just a though.
Cheers
Eric Boisvert
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Nick Goupinets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envoyé : 27 août, 2005 16:50
À : users@cocoon.apache.org
Objet : Pass a parameter from generator/transformer to the sitemap
Hi everybody,
I am trying to find out how to pass a parameter from generator /
transformer code to the sitemap. Ultimately, I would want something like
this:
<map:generate type="my-generator"/>
<map:transform type="some.xsl">
<map:parameter name="param" value="{param-created-by-my-generator}"/>
</map:transform>
<map:serialize/>
That's pretty easy with actions (just get a HashMap returned), but how
can this be achieved with generators/transformers? I guess there are
always hacks with request/session attributes, but there must be a more
elegant way.
Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards,
Nick Goupinets.
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