Welcome to Paloose

Paloose is a simplified version of Cocoon using PHP. It resulted from scratching a long standing personal itch: that there are very few ISPs who will support Java/Tomcat for web sites, other than as a very expensive "professional" addition. Almost all will support PHP5 (sorry, Paloose does not use PHP4), so I decided to write my version of a simple, cut-down Cocoon in PHP5. I wanted to use XML on my personal sites but could not use Cocoon because of the expense. I have been using Paloose for some time now and have always found it a good substitute for Cocoon in all but the most complex sites. Paloose may also encourage others to start using XML and XSL without having to use extra bits such as Tomcat, Jetty or a full Cocoon installation.

Paloose supports the following:

• Generators:
  • Aggregation
  • Simple XML file generator
  • Directory listing generator
  • XML Template file generator
  • Preliminary support for Tidy generator (eg Word documents)
  • GedCom generator
• Transformers:
  • XSL transforms
  • Logging Transformer
  • Support for multi-language through i18n
  • XML Write to external file (SourceWriting)
  • Querying an SQL database
  • Filter Transformer
  • XInclude Transformer
  • Entity Transformer
  • Password Encoding Transformer
  • Page-hit Transformer
  • Picture Gallery Transformer
• Serializers:
  • HTML serializer
  • XHTML serializer
  • XML serializer
  • Text serializer
• Actions:
  • SendMail action
  • Authentication actions (supporting login and restricted pages)
• Selectors:
  • Browser Selector
  • Request Parameter Selector
• Forms:
  • Paloose Forms (based on JX forms)
  • Flowscripts and continuations
  • Entry checking
• Internal-only pipelines
• Wildcard and regular expression pattern matchers
• Redirection
• Simple Resource Readers
• Subsitemaps
• Views
• Error handling
• Sitemap variables and pseudo-protocols
• Global sitemap variables
• Request parameters

Please note that the technology underlying Paloose does not make it suitable for very large sites. If you need performance then upgrade to Cocoon — the extra expense will probably be unnoticable in the overall cost of a large site anyway. However, having the ability to try out XML and XSL ideas in a PHP environment with a subset of Cocoon is very useful.

To get started read the documentation pages and download the latest version of Paloose.

Licence

Paloose is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

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