Cocoon: Building XML Applications

Chapter 9. Developing Components for Cocoon

Cocoon provides a wide variety of components, such as the various transformers and generators, that can be used to build different types of applications. As you have seen throughout this book, these applications can range from simple web pages to quite complex solutions such as a news portal, where data is accessed over the Internet and the user configuration is stored in a database. However, there will be times when you need a component that is not in the standard distribution. One of Cocoon’s great advantages is that it can be easily extended with additional components.

One of the first Cocoon-based ...