Serving Content (XML/JPEGS) from Datababase

[Andreas Busch <An...@ilogics.de>]

Im a absolute beginner to cocoon !
 
I have read over the  Documentation and the Cocoon book (Building
XML-Applications)
We have a system that generates XML for producing catalogues !
the XML will be rendert in Indesign.
I think about using cocoon to render the same XML for lower quality output
(HTML maybe pdf)
 
there are 2 thinks not realy clear to me.
 
1. I need to get the xml-Stream from the Database (it's Oracle using
xml-type (CLOB also possible)
2. I  need to read images from database as well (BLOB)
 
for the 2 point i have found Imagereader and Databasereader 
as I understand, they are not combinable into a pipeline ?
 
I need any glue to get a Idea to implement this in Cocoon philosophy (maybe
without writing a spezial servlet )
 
Thanks a lot 
 
 
Andreas Busch