Re: Documentation suggestion and question

Hey Ken, I'm glad you like it!
You're right about the docs, there should be a section on how to enable
the extensions. I'm just not sure the command-line way is really going to
be standard. I'll include it for the 1.0 release later this summer though.
It would be nice to do some more work on the db extensions, at least to
handle transactions and connection pooling cleanly.

The <program> tag is just a placeholder. you can embedd o:XML anywhere in
an XML document - it's designed that way to make inline dynamic processing
easier. For example I use it on the o:XML web site to generate the
non-static content. The o:XML tags are embedded in DocBook files and
processed by an ant buildscript, which then does an XSL transformation to
generate the HTML and PDF output.
Would like to write an article on using o:XML for publishing purposes,
just need to find the time...

later,

/m


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Ken McCloskey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm new to o:XML, trying to discover how to use it and the caveats of doing
> so.
>
> One thing I really like about o:XML is the database extensions. However the
> documentation in my opinion has a serious omission. To get the database
> extensions to work you have to do:
>
> java org.oXML.engine.ObjectBox -e org.oXML.extras.db.DatabaseExtensions
>
> This isn't mentioned in the docs. A reasonably intuitive person might
> surmise that, but I think many would not.
>
> Also, a question, does the output of an o:XML program always need to include
> the <program> tag? I'd prefer if my output did not include it.
>
> Thanks for your work on this interesting project.
>
> Ken
>
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