Can you open a Bugzilla entry and upload a patch please? Thanks, Andreas
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin McDermott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 6:19 PM Subject: Would like to contribute... > Hi, > > Following on from the launch of the Cocoon driven > StandardLifeInvestments.com sites, I've been given the go-ahead to offer the > code that we developed in order to make our task a bit easier :) > > A bit of background will make it easier to understand the changes :) > > There are various sub-sites within StandardLifeInvestments.com, and for some > of these sub-sites, there is content that is shared between them. > > This content is managed within a "shared" branch inside Teamsite. > > We have modified FileSourceFactory to return our new FilePathSource > > 25c80 > < public class FilePathSourceFactory extends AbstractLoggable > --- > > public class FileSourceFactory extends AbstractLoggable > 36c91 > < Source result = new FilePathSource(location, this.manager); > --- > > Source result = new FileSource(location, this.manager); > 46c101 > > FilePathSource extends FileSource with functionality that if the filename > referred to by the FilePathSource doesn't exist, it passes the name of the > file to a class which returns a list of "alternate" names for the file, > which FilePathSource then checks for, of course if none of these > "alternative" names exist, then it complains about not being able to find > the original file, and all is as before. > > In our production code, there's only one "alternative" name returned, which > is the result of a Regex on the original filename to replace the original > sitename or Teamsite branch with our "shared" directory. > > This /hostname.com/pages/prices.xml would be replaced with > /shared/pages/prices.xml. > > What this has allowed us to do, is transparently link content on sites, > without having to have some "shared" identified in URIs, as a side-effect > (due to being a modification to the resolver), you can have shared XSLT > documents too, this might have application (WRT our setup), when you have > Apache virtual hosting static content (i.e. images and CSS), you can have a > totally shared page, that is customised by CSS and images. > > If this is of interest to the Cocoon project, I can contribute patches... > > Thanks again for Cocoon. > > Kevin > > --- > > Kevin McDermott Senior Technologist > 0131 476 6000 Cert. TeamSite Consult > www.realise.com > > > > > >
