Robert Burrell Donkin did the initial implementation of this menus.dtd for the Betwixt site. (the current main site also uses it and the sandbox components I mavenized as well)
I like the way you can put the "About Us" section above the "Commons
DBCP" without any special scripting. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/
Another advantage is that you can use/reuse different menus between the main site and a component site.
I do not disagree that it is flexible. My concern is with maintaining the "common section" throughout all the subproject sites so that it is the same in each one, if component A and B can place the parts where ever they want, then its going to be difficult to maintain a consistent navigational model for the entire commons. Consistency is important so users know who to get around the site from within any project.
The site.jsl gives us a full opportunity to adjust where specific navigation items show up in the navigation without each individual site needing to configure the "entities" in the navigation.xml
If you want to see specific ordering or toggling of menus to be
shown/not shown, it can be controlled globally across all the sites from
one location. The top level navigation.xml can have specific items within it, while the subproject navigations can be configured to only have specific "global" items we designate show up there. The project can still add whatever custom menus they want, but they appear in a specific portion of the navigation and cannot alter the global menus.
For example the "View CVS" and "Download" menus are usefull on the
main site but on the DBCP site they aren't. There you have a specific
downloads page: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/downloads.html
I think we can accomplish this while still maintaining a golobally consistent site navigation.
-Mark
-- Dirk
Henri Yandell wrote:
Heh. Looks like Dirk created/moved the menus.dtd the other day.
Any reason why we should be using menus.dtd Dirk?
Betwixt, Pool, Launcher and DBCP are using it.
Hen
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
As I started looking at updating some of the websites, I realised that we have two competing approaches: - incl_nav.xml - menus.dtd
I have been updating everything to use the former, but I suspect others may be updating towards the latter. Have we agreed on which to use? If so, can we mark the other as deprecated in the file ;-)
Stephen
-- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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