Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Summary

This chapter looked at why HTML is not an ideal format for designing the “machine web” and how the XML family of standards has allowed data (and layout) formats to be defined in an open and cross-platform way. XSL lets you design a way to publish your data in various formats in a very flexible manner. Because it is standardized, XML is supported by components that can be integrated into new applications or as extensions to given solutions. An XML-based application can meet the many challenges facing today’s Internet solutions. The Apache open-source project Cocoon provides an extensive framework for XML applications. Cocoon contains the basic XML components and also provides ways to integrate various data sources and control how the ...