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Thursday, June 4, 2009

cocoon 2.2 experience

I had to rewrite a cocoon application from scratch over the last few days because the xml schema used for their productinformation was completely redesigned on my advice.

This meant i could not reuse the existing transformations. This was an exciting challenge so I've spent many hours (about 70) to get the job done. The first thing I did was creating a cocoon block that transformed the original (messy) xml file to validate the new schema. Next in line I created a cocoon block which will be responsible for reading all files from their repository (unix filesystem).

I'm pleased with the end-result so here comes a first screenshot.

I also am going to share the lessons learned from this huge cocoon annex xslt job among which:
- how handling escaping html (cdata) in a smart easy way.
- pitfalls encountered
- how creating nice popup panels
- ...

























Cheers,
Robby Pelssers

2 comments:

  1. Hi Robby, good to see this project is still being used. Although I don't think your client will appreciate their logo and product information being displayed on the web like this.

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  2. Yep... my guess is all apps will be rebuilt with cocoon 2.2. As for your concern, i might remove the logo but this information is freely available online (datasheet) as you should now.

    Robby

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