Cocoon: Building XML Applications

On We Go

Hopefully, you now have Cocoon up and running on your system. You might want to take some time and explore the examples contained in the distribution before moving on to the next chapter. There you will see how Cocoon works and how you can use the different components and concepts to build your own examples.

However, if you are like us, you will probably want to go straight to the next chapter and get started. That’s fine too. It’s your book, after all.

As you will see, Cocoon is capable of many different things, such as publishing XML data in various formats, integrating data from databases, integrating scripting languages, and accessing external data sources such as news feeds. As you move through this book, you will build sample ...