How does XWeb relate to Cocoon?
Both process XML documents with XSL. Both offer some help for managing input. That’s probably all and in fact the first part is in both programs done by libraries. Cocoon offers a number of features to do dynamic XML processing. If you have documents that change often (e.g. since they are generated all the time), Cocoon offers you an environment where this can be managed very easily and in a performant way. Also it offers some ease of managaging the input: you just put your files in the right directories and Cocoon will handle the rest. XWeb doesn’t offer any support for dynamic pages (although you can include CGIs and similar things) but it offers you a number of features for creating the navigation like rendering the buttons and giving your stylesheets every information they need to create the navigation. The process is managed by a single input file which is similar to a makefile. Cocoon needs a Servlet engine to run on, XWeb is designed to run on a workstation or PC and creates a w
