Archive for May, 2004

Lambda on Cocoon

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

Looks like Lambda the Ultimate, a weblog about programming languages, noticed that Cocoon uses continuations (about time! :).

Cocoon 2.1.5 Released

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

Old news, I’m off the ball…. read the story at Apache News Blog.

Cocoon Livesite

Friday, May 21st, 2004

Pier announces that after 4 years of working with Cocoon, he finally has a live site up: VNUNet. He says it’s running off of 2.1.5 Head CVS, Apache 2.0.49 + mod_cache and Jetty 4.2.19.

On top of all of that, the site design is very professional and it feels absolutely snappy. Great job Pier!

Atom2RSS web service with Cocoon

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

I generally try to stay out of all the RSS/Atom/blahblah controversy, but this one was too easy to take care of with Cocoon:

Given this XSLT, it’s trivial to implement a web service to convert a URL from Atom to RSS (or vice versa, if that’s your thing):

<map:match pattern="atom2rss">
    <map:generate type="file" src="http://{request-param:url}"/>
    <map:transform src="stylesheets/atom2rss.xsl"/>
    <map:serialize type="xml"/>
</map:match>