Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Practical Examples and Tips

This chapter has covered a lot of topics so far. Hopefully you have been able to use some of these new features to extend an application you already have built. We will now look at some examples and give you a few tips on getting the most out of Cocoon when you use it to build applications that other people might also use.

The two following examples help you understand the components and concepts presented so far. The first one is a small example showing you how to use the sql transformer to fetch data from a database. You might need to use the log transformer in this example if you have any problems connecting to the database. The second example is a bigger real-world example: the Cocoon Documentation System. This ...