Cocoon lite / XML and XSLT publishing framework

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Published on 2009-07-07T21:27:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 21:05 UTC
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What publishing frameworks (publishing only, NOT full-blown CMS) based on XML, XSLT sitemaps and pipelines exist, are stable, active, and simpler / lighter than Cocoon?

I have glanced at:

  • mod_xslt (http://www.mod-xslt2.com/) which seemed to be exactly that, but looks all but dead, and required a complex setup, and apparently supported only libxslt as an XSLT processor (I'd like to be able to use Saxon and XSLT 2.0 of course).

  • Apache Forrest (http://forrest.apache.org/), but I don't understand if it is really simpler than Cocoon or is rather an additionnal thing on top of Cocoon?

What I'm looking for is something that does just this:

  • recieves an HTTP GET
  • "runs it" through a sitemap
  • finds a pipeline: source.xml -> xslt1.xsl -> xslt2.xsl -> xsltn.xsl -> serialize
  • runs the pipeline
  • serves the serialized result to the client

and:

  • uses Saxon (or is "processor independant")
  • can be installed "lightly", that is: should not require much more configuration than the sitemap

Maybe I'm describing an early version of Cocoon, or a future version of an XProc implementation...

Anyway, does such a tool exist?

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