[opencms-dev] XML/XSLT with OpenCMS

[M Butcher]

Alex,

I've been occasionally tinkering with an XSLT translation module for 
OpenCms. Right now, I'm working on adding a new Resource Type for XML 
documents (rather than using Plain documents). Because I'm busy with 
"real" work, development of the module has been slow.

It appears, though, that a fairly simple module could be written that 
took two Plain resources (probably with extensions .xml and .xslt) and 
converted them at runtime to one HTML page. Xerces is included, but I 
think you will have to put Xalan in the lib/ directory of the module.

It probably wouldn't hurt to cache the output of Xalan, either. :)

Matt

Alex ! wrote:
> I would like to store data in XML, and retrieve then render with XSLT. 
> Is it as simple as adding the XSL stylesheet and using the apache.org 
> API (or similar) in a JSP ??? Just as you would with any other XML/XSLT 
> transformation.
> 
> Also I'm not quite sure about the best way to store the XML. I am 
> building a field based add/edit interface so I can structure my data and 
> dissallow any html from creeping in via content authors - but should I 
> place the generated XML into a "page"/"plain"/"text" type file with an 
> .xml extension or do it some other way.
> 
> I read some mails from matt butcher in the archives, is there already a 
> module out there to do this.
> 
> Does it even make sense to use the cms for the xml content. (I am going 
> to have to provide xml content syndication so xml is a must, but is xml 
> + OpenCMS a good way?
> 
> If this is a good way to go, I assume I'll have to create a module or 
> set of classes(as a layer) to do the work, which I will be happy to make 
> open source - so please do contribute your ideas.
> 
> Any help/suggestions would be very appreciated.
> 
> Alex.
> 
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