Hi,
Thanks for your pointer.
The content basically is static, so your approach is perfectly fine with
me.
Since I found creating XML docbook documents easy, using XMLmind XML
editor, I am writing in it. What I want now is a framework to publish,
where I can concentrate on presentation and site organisation later as I
learn xslt.
How slow is cocoon in comparison with the option you suggested? Is it
significant?
Thanks once again.
Damar
Bob Stayton wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:05:59PM +0800, wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am new to this list and new to both XML and docbook.
>>
>>Recently, I installed Apache+tomcat+cocoon and managed to published a
>>docbook article, using docbook dtd and xsl. It is a very simple
>>publication - docbook xsl installed, docbook article created, and made it
>>point to the xsl. With my very limited XML and XSL knowledge,I could not
>>follow the XSL files for modifications. I at least have the platform for
>>creating documents for the future site (if I cannot call it a site now!).
>>
>>Now, I read about docbook's website framework for publishing webpages.
>>Again with my limited knowledge, I have no clue how I should start this
>>with -- could not follow the instruction given in the example
>>webpage.
>>
>>Can any one give me some hints on the basics of docbook and website
>>framework? How can I publish example site on cocoon? It may give me some
>>hints afterwards.
>>
>>
>
>You haven't described your application much, so it isn't
>clear to me why you want to combine DocBook and Cocoon.
>
>Cocoon is generally used to convert on demand an XML
>document to an HTML document and deliver it over the wire.
>Doing so with DocBook XSL often leads to dissatisfaction
>with the performance, because the DocBook XSL stylesheets
>are big and complex, and don't usually process within the
>response window most people expect for browsing. If your
>XML files are fairly static, you might be better off
>converting the XML to HTML outside of Cocoon and simply
>serving the HTML with Apache. The response time will be
>much better, and you won't be loading down the server
>with a lot of intense DocBook processing.
>
>Website is an extension of the DocBook XSL stylesheets to
>generate a set of web pages that make up the navigational
>tree for a web site. You create XML input files that define
>the web pages using the website DTD, and then process
>them with the website stylesheet to generate HTML.
>The result is a set of HTML files that contain the
>web pages a user can navigate through on the site.
>
>I don't think you can use website with Cocoon because
>website generates multiple HTML files from the input XML.
>A server can deliver only one HTML file to a browser in
>a single request. It could cache the rest of the files,
>but then you might as well just generate the HTML
>ahead of time and serve that with plain Apache.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
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