[opencms-dev] Import arbitrary XML documents into OpenCms

[Sebastian Himberger]

Hi,

I once did this with a huge product catalog. We used a scheduled job for 
importing a local directory into the OpenCms VFS. XSLT was used to 
generate the HTML for the XmlPages. These pages were not designed to be 
modified but converting them gave us a couple of advantages (at least in 
our context):

 - Speed: The flex cache of OpenCms was used and the transformation 
(which was a complex one) was only done once.
 - Decoupling: The web catalog kept running even if the catalog database 
crashed
 - Search: The XmlPages are well integrated in the OpenCms fulltext search
 - Navigation: You can use the sitemap and navigation features to nicely 
integrate your content

Of course the catalog was not changed extremly frequently and update 
time on the website was not critical (changes were propagated once a 
day). For us it worked out pretty well but of course the context is 
always a different one. It is a bit of work to develop such a import.

does this help or was the answer to generic?

best regards,
Sebastian



Yves Glodt schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I have a load of xml documents which I need to integrate into our OpenCms-
> based site.
>
> Now, I have the choice between converting them to html on the server, with a 
> Servlet and/or a jsp, or doing it in the browser with Javascript...
>
> But I wonder, since OpenCms is XML-bases at the end, if there is a way to 
> directly create OpenCms-XmlPages by importing my xmlfiles...? :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Yves
>
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