Learn
- Take the other tutorials in this developerWorks
series on Cocoon.
- Follow the continuing development of Apache Cocoon at the official project home page.
- The Cocoon users mailing list is a great source of advice from a thriving community of users.
- For more information about Apache Log4J, which Cocoon uses for logging internally, visit the Logging Services documentation (Log4j Project).
- Read the user documentation for more information on Cocoon components.
- Read XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) basics and XSL-FO advanced techniques, two tutorials by Doug Tidwell (developerWorks, February 2003) for more information on how to use XSLT to convert XML documents into formatting objects and then the Apache XML Project's FOP (Formatting Object to PDF) tool to convert those objects into PDF files.
- Robert DuCharme's Transforming XML column contains regular practical advice on using XSLT.
- Read an Introduction to XSL Formatting Objects by Dave Pawson.
- Find more resources on XSL and XSL Formatting Objects at the W3C.
- Learn about FOP, the formatting engine used to generate PDFs in Cocoon.
- Follow the progress of SVG at the W3C.
- While you're at it, you can learn the fundamentals of SVG in the tutorial "Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics" (developerWorks, March 2004).
- Read "Understanding SAX" by Nick Chase (developerWorks, July 2003) for a great introduction to the SAX API.
- Read the RSS 1.0 specification.
- Find additional tutorials about XSL, SVG, and more in the XML zone on developerWorks.
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