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Hmm? Well isn't that like saying that sitemaps are "proprietary"

to Cocoon. XSP, to me, provide a valid and useful function. They

allow me to develop generators with a *minimal* amount of Java

knowledge (which, sadly, is my situation); as far as possible I

avoid using it (except for simple if/then statements and the odd

calculation) but it makes a very useful wrapper for ESQL which,

if you are working with databases, is a *must have* (IMO)

In the end, all XSP and ESQL are is 'logicsheets' which get converted

to Java (still not sure exactly what you mean by "pure"; is there some

other kind?). So Cocoon takes care of the coding complexity, allowing

me to concentrate on the logic. And this, again IMO, is a Very Good

Thing.

The role of XSL is not changed at all - its still required to do the final

presentation transformations.

Well, that's my model and its worked for me from the days of Cocoon1.

>>> Peter.Hunsberger@stjude.org 28/01/2003 12:55:11 >>>
> In Cocoon 1, I could see that. In Cocoon 2, I think you would be
> hard-pressed to avoid XSP for longer than a week if you were seriously
> trying to solve a problem by using Cocoon.

Huh? We have a very large Cocoon 2 site that pumps tons of complex data
through Cocoon. We don't have a single XSP, nor do we every plan to have
such: I personally don't like XSP since it uses a (mostly) proprietary
language and I'd much rather stick with standard XSL and standard Java...

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