On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:16 +0200, Unico Hommes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 12:57 +0200, Unico Hommes wrote: > > > > Hi Ross! Great to see Forrest is finally making use of the > > locationmap. I've been using it successfully myself for quite a while > > now. > > > > Ross Gardler wrote: > > > >> Quite some time ago Unico created a Locationmap module for Forrest. > >> This allows us to specify where the source file for a request is > >> located independently of the client request URL. this excellent > >> code has sat in our SVN for far too long, waiting for someone with > >> a strong enough itch to make real use of it. With the release of > >> 0.7 and therefore the start of 0.8 development it has come out of > >> hiding and is now enabled in our core. It is a key part of > >> integrating repositories and CMSs such as Slide, Daisy and Lenya. > > > >> The Locationmap code [1] reuses code from Cocoon rather than > >> starting from scratch. > > > > The part of Cocoon that is reused are Matchers and Selectors and some > > ideas in the treeprocessor package, but not the parsing and > > interpreting code of the treeprocessor itself which among other > > things concerns mounting. > > > > > > > >> First of all great work Unico (OT BTW in spanish your name means > >> "the only one"). :) > > True and my last name means "men" in french, I guess it's better than > the previous Dutch prime minister's lastname which was "Kok" ;-) >
lol true. The "only man" is definitely better then the prime ministers name. ;-) > >> Talking about selectors in the lm. I gave it a shoot last month > >> with the select type="exist", but I was stumbling over the > >> map:when/otherwise syntax that seems not be implemented in the lm. > > I have not used selectors in the locationmap that much myself so that > part is probably least tested. The thing with selectors in the context > of the locationmap is that the concept makes less sense in some > situations. Therefore the syntax is a bit different from the selector > syntax in a sitemap: > > > <select type="exists"> > <location src="file://home/styles/site.xsl"/> > <location src="file://forrest/styles/site.xsl"/> > </select> > > I will try that ASAP, but that is great stuff. :) I did not try it that way. > >> How do we (I am as well from forrest) have to extend that part? > >> Maybe you would like to join force again because now that we > >> understood the power of your work, we would like to further enhance > >> it. You are the creator and I guess you know how to get the most > >> out of it. ;-) > > Hopefully :-). I promise to monitor forrest-dev more closely from now on. > I saw you just started again. Thanks. :) > > > >> Thanks for helping us out. > > You're welcome :-) > :) ...welcome back to forrest. ;-) salu2 > - - > Unico > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFC0mM7cuec8tVNKAwRAgXPAJ99arGCPR2UNXr5n4R/kX2UBwGB8ACbBrWS > QMM7OljG/o2gB7CKDE/K7Iw= > =Qru4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
