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jbaitertoday at 7:01 AM1 replyview on HN

Does anybody remember Cocoon? It was an XSLT Web Framework that built upon Spring. It was pretty neat, you could do the stuff XSLT was great at with stylesheets that were mapped to HTTP routes, and it was very easy to extend it with custom functions and supporting Java code to do the stuff it wasn't really great at. Though I must say that as the XSLT stylesheets grew in complexity, they got *really* hard to understand, especially compared to something like a Jinja template.


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evaneliastoday at 2:25 PM

Yes! In the mid 00's, two places I worked (major US universities) used Cocoon heavily. It was a good fit for reporting systems that had to generate multiple output formats, such as HTML and PDF.