I’m trying to see out of the footprints of giants.
Open Source is wonderful, but sometimes the lack of documentation can really leave you in a quagmire, trying to piece together the pieces based on what code is available.
Fortunately, it’s common practice with the Cocoon project for samples to be added for each new unit of functionality. Usually these are adequate for getting up and running when the documentation is sparse or missing. Sometimes, like today, it can be “challenging” to work out how they work, replicate, and apply them in your own applications – especially when the features you need are powerful, recursive and quite abstract.
I’ve been working with the <fd:class/>, <fd:new/>, and <fd:union/> functionality of the Cocoon forms framework. It can be used to great effect to build powerful dynamic forms, but since it’s only been in Cocoon for for maybe sixth months, examples and HOWTOs are sparse (non-existent).
Hopefully if I don’t run out of waking hours, I’ll get some notes added to the Cocoon wiki so that others can benefit from my pain…
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