[Question] [Request|Session]AttributeOutputModules prefixes attribute names, why? (was: Re: [ANN] Module Source and XModule Source)

[Daniel Fagerstrom <da...@nada.kth.se>]

Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
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> AFAIK the new sources can cover all use cases for the mentioned 
> components (as well as doing plenty of new things):
...
> [Read|Write]SessionTransformers
> -------------------------------
...

I forgot to mention the problem with output modules that I described in 
the announcement of [X]ModuleSource.

Anyone knowing anything about this?

Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
> Open Issue
> ----------
> 
> A peculiarity in the RequestAttributeOutputModule and
> SessionAttributeOutputModule is that they as default prefix 
 > all attribute names with
 > org.apache.cocoon.components.modules.output.OutputModule", why?
> 
> To make the samples for the xmodule source work this must be
 > reconfigured to using attribute names without prefixes. This is
 > done in the cocoon.xconf by puting an empty key-prefix" element:
> 
>   <key-prefix/>
> 
> as child to the configurations of the output-modules
 > "request-attr" and "session-attr".
> 
...
> 
> Could we change the default behaviour for the
 > [Request|Session]AttributeOutputModules so that they not prepending any
 > "name spaces" as default. I found the current behaviour rather strange,
 > but maybe I am missing something.

/Daniel