[opencms-dev] Import arbitrary XML documents into OpenCms

[Sebastian Himberger]

Hi,

sorry for the delay i have overseen your question.

Yes i wrote a OpenCms Job to be run by the scheduler. The importexport
features of OpenCms were not used. I merely used the CmsObject to create
the files and the OpenCms XML document APIs to modify the content. But
this was really the small part. The biggest part was the XSL transformation.

best regards,
Sebastian




Yves Glodt schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Sebastian Himberger wrote:
>   
>> 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):
>>     
>
> Ok this sounds nice, and raises another question :-)
>
> How did the actual import happen? Did you write a class which is run by the 
> OpemCms scheduler, and which uses functionality from org.opencms.importexport 
> ?
>
> regards,
> Yves
>
>   
>>  - 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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