MailTransformer

[Conal Tuohy <Co...@ReddFish.Co.NZ>]

It seems to me that a MailTransformer would be a better, more general
solution to this problem than an XSP (though I don't know much about XSP).
Someone else recently was asking for much the same thing. 

Has anyone written a MailTransformer?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Mittman [mailto:namtastic@mac.com]
> Sent: Friday, 15 February 2002 13:24
> To: Cocoon Users
> Subject: maybe running Java within an XSL?
> 
> 
> What would be the best way to approach this functionality?
> 
> I have an XML which acts as source data for a multi-framed web 
> application.
> At some point I want a FORM in one of those HTML pages to 
> send email -- 
> take the to: and from: addresses but use a set of parameters 
> which are 
> nodes in the XML.
> 
> So basically I want, upon submission, for Cocoon to take the 
> parameters, 
> take the necessary nodes  from the XML, send email via 
> javax.mail, and 
> then style a result page based on the success/fail of the send, also 
> using parameters in the source XML.
> 
> Here's an example of what I'd thought I'd do:
> 
> a) Create an XSP by pulling in what is needed from the source XML and 
> the items from the FORM into a <xsp:page> root and a new 
> <apputil:mail> 
> element:
> 
> 	<map:match pattern="sendmail.xsp"><!-- the action of 
> the FORM -->
> 		<map:generate src="sourcedata.xml" /><!-- our 
> source data -->
> 		<map:transform src="sourcedata-to-sendmail.xsl">
> 			<map:parameter 
> name="use-request-parameters" value="true"/>
> 		</map:transform>
> 		<map:serialize type="xml"/>
> 	</map:match>
> 
> So a doc that is like this:
> 	<source>
> 		<name>Foo</name>
> 		<style>bar.css</style>
> 		<message>Thanks for making Foo #1 in 
> Lichtenstein.</message>
> 	</source>
> Becomes this:
> 	<xsp:page>
> 		<apputil:mail>
> 			<!-- form bits -->
> 			<name>Foo</name>
> 			<style>bar.css</style>
> 			<message>Thanks for making Foo #1 in 
> Lichtenstein.</message>
> 		</apputil>
> 	</xsp:page>
> 
> b) have apputil logicsheet ready, which will turn apputil:mail into a 
> <result> element
> 
> c) Execute the XSP and style the result
> 
> 	<map:match pattern="mail.xsp">
> 		<map:generate type="serverpages" 
> src="cocoon:/sendmail.xsp" />
> 		<map:transform src="mail.xsl"/><!-- xsl logic 
> based on the 
> result element -->
> 		<map:serialize type="html"/>
> 	</map:match>
> 
> It seems like it should be much easier than this, however. Is there a 
> better way?
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> n
> 
> 
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