Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact cocoon-users-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-users@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 7237 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2000 09:53:04 -0000 Received: from f227.law4.hotmail.com (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.149.227) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Jul 2000 09:53:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 43339 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jul 2000 09:52:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20000712095239.43338.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 212.41.37.3 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 02:52:39 PDT X-Originating-IP: [212.41.37.3] From: "Robin Green" To: cocoon-users@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Generating a FrameSet from a XML document Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:52:39 BST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Alessandro Bottoni wrote: > > > [Sorry, if you feel this question is off-topic] > > > > I'm starting to design a Cocoon1-based web site and I would like to use >a > > frameset with the usual "navigation frame" on the left side, the "main > > content frame" on the right, maybe a "banner frame" on the top... the >usual > > frame-based layout you can see in most web sites. > > > > I wonder: how can I generate the frameset and the frames from my XML > > document? > > I cannot see any way to generate a new HTML file when I match, let's >say, a > > tag. > > (and yes: I have seen how Norman Walsh's DocBook DSSSL perform this >task. I > > still cannot understand how to perform it with XML/XSLT and, if >required, > > XSP, from within Cocoon). > > > > In any case, it should be possible to use a XML "top level" document to > > generate the framset, put in it the links to other XML documents and >have > > them converted to HTML frame-documents on-the-fly, right? Exactly, simple as this example: >Is there any > > problem related with the sequence of request/response events between the > > client and the server? No. Cocoon is designed to process multiple requests simultaneously - even if they reference the same file(s). It synchronizes on cache access and XSP compilation and loading, so there should be no problem. -- Robin Green i-tao Ltd. 4 Skyline Village Limeharbour London E14 9TS United Kingdom Phone +44 20 7537 2233 Fax +44 70 8081 5118 http://www.i-tao.com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com