Re: [xsl] cocoon or xalan

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>]

Scott Purcell wrote:
> I have a xml file that includes a xsl stylesheet to produce html
> output for a website.  I have been trying to use Xalan to read in the
> two files and throw the output to the output stream of the webserver.
> While trying to resolve some coding issues, I have been told that
> cocoon would do the same thing.
>
> After glancing through the documentation for cocoon, it appears to be
> quite deep. I do not want to go down the wrong road, so I was hoping
> that someone may be able to guide me on the pros and cons of both
> products.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

Hello Scott,

there is no either or with Cocoon and Xalan. The first one is an XML 
publishing  framework (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/index.html), the 
second one an XSLT processor. Cocoon uses normally Xalan, but you can 
use any other Java XSLT processor too (I think).
What are your "coding issues"? You can setup quite fast a business logic 
in the sitemap, but maybe you don't want to. An easy transformation in 
the sitemap looks like the following:

<map:match pattern="index.html">
  <map:generate src="index.xml"/>
  <map:transform src="index.xsl"/>
  <map:serialize type="html"/>
</map:match>

But Cocoon has very more powerful features, for more question on Cocoon 
use the mailing lists there: http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/mail-lists.html.

Regards,

Joerg


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