Seems to become an interesting discussion :-) Push = pushing actively a fistful of data to some place Pull = retrieving data from some place by "asking for it"
>> Inside a pipeline a Generator calls SAX methods of a connected >> Transformer which calls methods of another Transformer and so on till >> calling the SAX methods of a Serializer. From this point of >> view it's push. >> > > Where did you read this? Doesn't sound like push to me, and not like the way > it works Well, then please explain how it works inside a pipeline. The serializer S cannot tell the transformer T to give it some element, nor can T ask the generator G to provide data. Following the SAX api the generator G tells the transformer T that there is now an XML element starting (startElement). T may leave it unchanged, modifies it or just drop it when notifying S with the same API method. > Creating compound pipelines has nothing todo with the concept of push or pull > the way we are used to talk about push and pull, hence my remark that I would > rather not mix up these terms the way you do > If "we" is the community of Cocoon developers it would be fine to have a definition of these terms by hand. To get back to Tomas' problem: He wanted to take the word "true" (i.e. some data) and forward to another page (meaning a browser page -> redirect, meaning a pipeline -> push). Do you rate my first post to him as "helpful" or was in inherently wrong? BTW: Le mie opinione possono cambiare, ma non il fatto che io ho ragione! ;-) Florian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
