[opencms-dev] RE: XML/XSLT with OpenCMS

[Alex !]

Many thanks for your advice guys.

Olli, could you please explain why I would need to create a new resource 
type for the add/edit  interfaces? Wouldn't it be just a jsp that 
reads/writes xml to the body of a plain resource?

I've looked at the tutorial from last week, looks straight forward enough I 
think...

Re. the xslt, I was looking at the Xtags taglib form jakarta.apache.org, 
looks quite powerful so I'll gove that a go. Are there any taglibs you could 
specifically recommend.

Thanks

Alex.

>Regarding the editor interfaces. I would recommend you to create a new
>resource type. We discovered a way to do this last week, please see
>http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2004q1/009635.html, and I 
>have
>build already one XML based resource type with a form GUI since then:)


>
>From: "Olli Aro" <olli_aro at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
>Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] XML/XSLT with OpenCMS
>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:21:36 -0000
>Reply-To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
>
>Yes, if you store your document as plain text with extension .xml, OpenCMS
>will automatically serve it with the correct mime type. Same works with the
>xslt files. I have not ever needed this, but you should be able to easily
>transform your xml within a JSP template and that way include it as part of
>the OpenCMS content presentation (I have always used java taglibs for
>including xml instead, since at least for me it works quicker than xslt).
>
>Regarding the editor interfaces. I would recommend you to create a new
>resource type. We discovered a way to do this last week, please see
>http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2004q1/009635.html, and I 
>have
>build already one XML based resource type with a form GUI since then:)
>
>Regards,
>
>Olli
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
>On Behalf Of M Butcher
>Sent: 20 February 2004 17:58
>To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
>Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] XML/XSLT with OpenCMS
>
>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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