Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Using the Command-Line Interface

We previously mentioned one challenge when building web applications: the offline generation of web sites. You start a process, and this process builds the whole web site into a directory. You can then put it on your web server or on a CD.

This generated web site then does not need sophisticated software components on the server to run. It only needs a simple web server that can serve static files from the filesystem. All the real work is already done in the generation process.

That’s where Cocoon’s Command-Line Interface (CLI) comes into play. You can utilize it to generate a whole web site. This might seem like a great idea, but there are limitations. You can generate an offline version only if the content ...