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On 07/01/2011 10:25 AM, Francesco Chicchiricc� wrote:
> Hi all,
> recently I have been in the situation for which I need to parametrize an
> XML file of my application; I thought there was a simpler way but I
> ended up by using an additional XSLT transformation step (since the
> XSLTTransformer can accep parameters from the pipeline).
>
> With C2.1 I used to put in place the JXGenerator [1] (or JXTransformer
> [2] depending on the case): this saved me, in many cases, from an
> additional transformation step in the pipeline.
>
> Even though it is true that everything you could do with JXGenerator can
> always be done with XMLGenerator + XSLTTransformer, do you think that
> such component can be a "nice to have" in C3?

So far there is only the StringTemplateGenerator component, that 
dynamically generates XML based on a template.

There are also no 'build-in' objects like request, session, etc. which 
were supported by the JXGenerator or the VelocityGenerator in Cocoon 2.x

I have no strong opinion on what should be migrated to C3 as long as it 
goes into a new module or the cocoon-optional module ;-)
I suggest that you choose that technology that fits your requirements 
and your time constraints (VelocityGenerator should be rather straight 
forward, migrating JX* is definitly more-timeconsuming) best.

-- 
Reinhard P�tz         Founder & Managing Director, Indoqa and Deepsearch
                         http://www.indoqa.com/people/reinhard-poetz.html

Member of the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Cocoon Committer, PMC member                  reinhard@apache.org
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