The Cocoon Two Developers Handbook is a book about developing XML/XSLT based applications using the Apache Cocoon publishing engine. I co-authored the book, along with Lajos Moczar, and it is now available.
You can order the book from Amazon, the following links should take you straight there!
You may note that on some of the Amazon sites the authors are not specified as myself and Lajos. This is a hangover from when someone else was writing the book and will change soon (I hope).
To compile the source files, extract the source zip file into a folder. If you have Ant then make sure ANT_HOME is set to the appropiate location and %ANT_HOME%/bin is set on your path. You should then be able to run ant from the source folder and all should compile ;-). If you have any problems then just get in touch.
The precompiled (with JDK 1.4) binaries can be extracted straight into your webapps/cocoon folder. The main stuff sits under the mount/cdh folder, with some classes sitting under WEB-INF.
You will note that not all of the code is here, it's just the stuff for my chapters that had sample code. I would include Lajos' stuff but it will be far easier for him to keep that up to date himself. Check his site out for more details.
I really hope you enjoy the book and find it useful. If you have any comments (good or bad) please let me know. All the best! Jez.