Re[4]: [Q] An example of using ESQL in a stylesheet ? Logicsheet ?

[Sandor Spruit <sa...@cs.uu.nl>]

Donald,

I don't fully understand your interesting but brief reply. The point
is: Cocoon processes many things as XML documents, flexibility all
over the place. I'm not *that* experienced with Cocoon, yet.

Please refer to comments below.

On Wednesday, February 21, 2001, 6:38:23 PM, you wrote:

Donald> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Sandor Spruit wrote:

>> >> What I'd like to do: in the Cocoon pipeline of an XML document, I'd
>> >> like to add elements that will eventually get rendered (in HTML) as
>> >> a toolbar of buttons or clickable images, above or below the content
>> >> of the original XML document.
>> >> The functions accessible through this toolbar obviously may depend on
>> >> the characteristics of the user, his access rights, session stuff or
>> >> a specific document subtype. So, while the stylesheets gets processed,
>> >> I'd like to query a database to see what elements need to be inserted,
>> >> then fiddle with these elements to render them as HTML.
>> >> Is this possible ?
>>
>> Paul> Mm-hmm. Why not do this in the XSP page itself? In C2 you will
>> Paul> (honest) be able to do this using the content aggregation
>> Paul> functionality we're in the process of designing.
>>
>> I'd like to keep the details on toolbars and such away from the folks
>> writing the XML documents. They'll at some point just upload, say, a
>> news item - recognizable by some document type, tag or attribute. As
>> this little XML document gets processing to be displayed, it needs to
>> be get the 'news item toolbar' built into the output HTML. Does this
>> sound reasonable ?

Donald> write your own xsp logicsheet which transforms elements like
Donald> this:

Donald> <foo:toolbar type="new item"/>

Donald> into calls to the esql logicsheet or whatever. then your page
Donald> authors needs only know about the 'foo' namespace, and don't
Donald> need to worry about esql or java code in their pages. this is
Donald> _key_ to the whole xsp idea. 

Do you mean a pipeline like this:

   XML doc with <foo:toolbar> tags
   <XSP-processor> yields calls to esql tags
   <XSLT-processor> transforms toolbar stuff to HTML buttons

Could you supply one complete, working example here ? The notion of a
logicsheet is barely documented in 1.8.2, or so it seems. IMHO: some
of the examples are really sniplets, where things like root elements,
name space stuff etc. are used in confusing combinations. This gives
me the (frustrating) feeling that what I want is something perfectly
reasonable, it's possible, but I can't see how it should be done.

Any help will be much appreciated,
Sandor
-- 
ir A.G.L. Spruit, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Institute of information and computing sciences
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loss to even things out" (from: Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss")

Re: [Q] An example of using ESQL in a stylesheet ? Logicsheet ?

[Ulrich Mayring <ul...@denic.de>]

Rick Wayne wrote:
> 
> we're doing something vaguely similar, but more on the back end: we want
> to take the user's input from a form, and perform an SQL query based on
> that.  i suspect an example that enlightens sandor will also help us
> quite a bit.

...
String query = "select " + request.getParameter("myparam") + " from
TABLE";
...
<esql:query><xsp:expr>query</xsp:expr></esql:query>
...


Ulrich

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Ulrich Mayring
DENIC eG, Systementwicklung

Re: Re[4]: [Q] An example of using ESQL in a stylesheet ? Logicsheet ?

[Rick Wayne <fe...@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

may i add my voice to this request?  it will save my team a lot of 
fumbling-and-groping time.  we want to use ESQL, and promote it (it'll 
be at least a minor feature in an upcoming Software Development article
about open source), but a little guidance would provide a lot of leverage.

we're doing something vaguely similar, but more on the back end: we want
to take the user's input from a form, and perform an SQL query based on
that.  i suspect an example that enlightens sandor will also help us 
quite a bit.

thanks!

On 2001.02.22 05:47:26 -0600 Sandor Spruit wrote:
 
> Could you supply one complete, working example here ? The notion of a
> logicsheet is barely documented in 1.8.2, or so it seems. IMHO: some
> of the examples are really sniplets, where things like root elements,
> name space stuff etc. are used in confusing combinations. This gives
> me the (frustrating) feeling that what I want is something perfectly
> reasonable, it's possible, but I can't see how it should be done.
> 
> Any help will be much appreciated,
> Sandor
> -- 
-- 
rw