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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Sven Kuenzler <sv...@imost.de> on 2002/08/01 12:39:08 UTC
Re: Excel generator
About the Source vs Generator issue: I found a post by Sylvain [1]. It
does not separate the Source and Generator concepts completely but the
bottom line seems to be
- If you have a format with some "natural" xml respresentation, it's a
source (Like Excel->MS's Excel-XML?)
- If you have a binary format which needs to be parsed to XML, it's a
generator (Like XLS -> Gnumeric?)
Sven
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=102576977207135&w=2
Andrew C. Oliver schrieb:
> Explain, elaborate.
>
> 2 Why would you want to do it at the transformation point?
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> Sven Kuenzler wrote:
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>> Something that just came to me thinking of the dicussion about an
>> ExcelGenerator: What about implementing it as (Writeable)Source
>> instead? That way you could use it with SourceWritingTransformer and
>> friends, not only as pipeline starting point.
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>> Sven
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Re: Excel generator
Posted by "Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>.
Sven Kuenzler wrote:
> About the Source vs Generator issue: I found a post by Sylvain [1]. It
> does not separate the Source and Generator concepts completely but the
> bottom line seems to be
> - If you have a format with some "natural" xml respresentation, it's a
> source (Like Excel->MS's Excel-XML?)
Its not *that* natural. There is an amount of parsing/etc that would
have to happen.
>
> - If you have a binary format which needs to be parsed to XML, it's a
> generator (Like XLS -> Gnumeric?)
makes sense.
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> Sven
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> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=102576977207135&w=2
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> Andrew C. Oliver schrieb:
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>> Explain, elaborate.
>>
>> 2 Why would you want to do it at the transformation point?
>>
>> Sven Kuenzler wrote:
>>
>>> Something that just came to me thinking of the dicussion about an
>>> ExcelGenerator: What about implementing it as (Writeable)Source
>>> instead? That way you could use it with SourceWritingTransformer and
>>> friends, not only as pipeline starting point.
>>>
>>> Sven
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