Re: beginner

Am 29.8.2002 01:05 Uhr +0200 uebermittelte Aquadesign folgende Zeilen:
>hello there,
>
>I am new to Wyona and Cocoon. If I get over the first hurdle of installing
>and running wyona, I will be willing to contribute documentation.
>
>Could somebody point me in the right direction.....I am using a Mac
>with OS X 10.1.3, what are the first steps in getting Wyona installed.
>I understand people get frustrated with people like me ( total beginner)
>asking obvious questions......but trust me nothings obvious when
>you don't know. I am buying a book on Cocoon and I have read alot
>of the Cocoon site. I still think they are missing a few stepping
>stones for us folk that are used to Golive and dreamweaver....this
>is where I will help hopefully.
>A more general question now, what is a designers role in Wyona? I
>presume a designer designs in photoshop and uses xsl stylesheets
>to accomplish the desired layout? are there GUI tools for designing
>these stylesheets?
>
>Ok I better stop now, everyone's probably shocked at my lack of knowledge.
>

Hi Matt, hi there,

I can't tell you what are the exact steps to be taken to get Wyona on 
your OS X up and running. I hope, that in a couple of days I am able 
to answer your question profundly, 'cause I'm waiting for my new Mac 
to arrive (just have an old iMac w/ 9.x). So be patient, or dive 
alone into a new world full of adventure ;-)

However, on my LINUX-Box, I first installed a JDK and afterwards 
Tomcat (Java Application Server). As the last step I put the 
wyona.war-File (from the Snapshot-Download) in the webapps-directory 
of Tomcat and started Tomcat. And.... it ran: yeeepi! I guess you 
have to take the same steps on OS X. All the required steps (at least 
for *NIX) are documented in the READMEs and on the web.
Allthough I found the following page that might be of help for you to 
get Tomcat up and running.

http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/index.html

During the last weeks I was playing around more with Cocoon 
(automatically deployed if you use an Wyona-Snapshot) than Wyona. I 
made a couple of small and simple pages to get my feet wet with XSLT 
and the sitemap of Cocoon. To achieve this I used BBEdit (also exists 
on OS X), because I rather like to work with my Mac than with an 
killer-app like "vi". So, I ftp'd with BBEdit to my LINUX-Box and 
created the files.

As far as I know, BBEdit is the best tool, to edit text on the mac. 
And working with XML/XSLT is editing text, at least in the way I'm 
using it. If you are doing bigger jobs, there are more specialised 
products on the market. However these I know of, run on Windows (eq. 
XML Spy). Another useful resource  for Mac and XML might be...
http://xmacl.com/

Cheers,

Markus