Can Cocoon can be used for large content related Intranet?

["Sreenivasan N." <sr...@ap.sony.com>]

Hi all

I have been working with Cocoon and analysing it for implementing for our 
corporate intranet. Basically the exsisting intranet contain word 
documents, Excel documents for various projects which user will see it from 
the intranet. Now we are planning to have those data in XML format so we 
can render it in different ways.

We are also focusing on customizing the output depend on the selection.
i.e
CASE 1 : one user wants project description of all the projects in the 
organisation
CASE 2:  Aggregated output of selected projects
CASE 3: Appliying filter for the documents and getting the output..

Can anyone suggest me whether these can be using inside Cocoon.

Thanks in advance
Regards
Sreenivasan.








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Re: Can Cocoon can be used for large content related Intranet?

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@codeconsult.ch>]

On Friday 07 June 2002 07:43, Sreenivasan N. wrote:
>. . .
> We are also focusing on customizing the output depend on the selection.
> i.e
> CASE 1 : one user wants project description of all the projects in the
> organisation
> CASE 2:  Aggregated output of selected projects

If I understand right, you're talking selection/sorting here.

In Cocoon itself, you could use XSLT transforms to do these selections and 
sorts, but to get good performance you'd need to prepare some kind of "map 
files" in XML that would contain lists of directories or file names, mapped 
to project identifiers.

Depending on the number of documents and directories and on the frequency of 
updates, this could quickly become too slow or impractical, at which point 
you will need some kind of database (XML or relational) to hold these maps. 

This kind of "file attributes database" is not a standard part of Cocoon 
today AFAIK, you'd have to build it yourself or use external components for 
this. 

What Cocoon offers today is easy access to SQL databases and good integration 
with the XIndice XML database. There have been talks recently on cocoon-dev 
about using the Slide content management system as a back-end, but it's not 
there yet.

> CASE 3: Appliying filter for the documents and getting the output..

If this means filtering XML documents and converting to presentation formats 
(HTML, PDF, RTF, etc.), then yes, that's exactly what Cocoon does.

Hope this helps!
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