Ichiro,
Can't you just override
public String getMarkupType()
{
return "html";
}
on WebPage class and return "xml" and generate whatever (well formed)
XML you need? Besides that you could put a filter in front of that
page and do whatever post-processing you need.
Regards,
Ernesto
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Ichiro Furusato
<ichiro.furus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not asking anyone to solve this one (ie., write any code), just
> tell me *how* it might be done via Wicket, if it's possible.
>
> In one of my earlier messages regarding validation of Wicket
> pages, Jeremy Thomerson replied that Wicket "only generates
> whatever HTML you want it to generate" and that got me thinking,
> why generate HTML (or XHTML) at all? Why not use Wicket as a
> means of generating something like DocBook or TEI?
>
> This raises two questions:
>
> 1. In looking into the Wicket code there are places that mention
> HTML/XHTML markup, but they don't seem part of the core
> functionality of Wicket. Is there anything that might keep me
> from generating DocBook instead of HTML? If Wicket is too
> tied into HTML (e.g., org.apache.wicket.markup.html.*) to be
> able to do this, what would it take to abstract the HTML-based
> functionality so that Wicket could serve any XML markup?
>
> 2. If I were going to use the above to generate DocBook with
> the idea that Wicket's servlet then sent that through an
> XSLT post-processor, would this *only* require changes to
> the Wicket servlet prior to fulfilling the servlet response?
> That *seems* to be the case, but I'm still learning Wicket.
>
> Basically, one could conceivably use Wicket in this mode as a
> replacement for Apache Cocoon, but it'd be *much* simpler
> and potentially very powerful.
>
> Just an idea I'm exploring... would potentially have wide usage.
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Ichiro
>
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