Generators

• A Generator is used to create an XML structure from an input source ( file, directory, stream …)

• Different types of generators:

  • file generator
  • directory generator
  • XSP generator
  • JSP generator
  • Request generator
  • …

• More generators can be added without modifying Cocoon.

<map:generators default="file">

<map:generator name="file" src="org.apache.cocoon.generation.FileGenerator" label="content"/>

<map:generator name="directory" src="org.apache.cocoon.generation.DirectoryGenerator" label="content"/>

<map:generator name="serverpages" src="org.apache.cocoon.generation.ServerPagesGenerator" label="content"/>

<map:generator name="request" src="org.apache.cocoon.generation.RequestGenerator"/>

...

</map:generators>

<map:match pattern="hello.html">

<map:generate src="docs/samples/hello-page.xml"/>

<map:transform src="stylesheets/page/simple-page2html.xsl"/>

<map:serialize type="html"/>

</map:match>

Sitemap entries for different types of generators

A sample generator entries in a pipeline

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