Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >Ferdinand Soethe wrote: > > > >>I know this has come up before, but I'm not sure which of the info in > >>old threads is still relevant today so I'll ask again: > > > >If you remind us what came up before, then we might be able > >to tell you if still relevant.
Any answer to that bit? > >>Why does Forrest expect unique element names in site.xml. > >> > >>One reason I found in the archives is that you need to have a unique > >>ID to distinguish between two entries pointing to the same file such > >>as > >> > >><about1 label="About 1"> > >> <index label="Index" href="index.html" description="Welcome to > >> MyProj"/> > >></about> > >> > >><about2 label="About 2"> > >> <index label="Index from somewhere else" href="index.html" > >> description="Welcome to MyProj"/> > >></about> > > > >I am confused as to what is your issue. > >It doesn't expect unique element names. > > > >Refer to them with site:about1/index and site:about2/index > >Or did i miss the point. > > I think what Ferdinand is saying is that he wants to use a schema to > drive an Editor for the site.xml and tabs.xml files. Without a defined > schema he can't do that. So his question is, if I define a schema will I > break any functionality. > > I believe it will break the site: and ext: protocols as I don't think we > can use attributes to identify nodes in those protocols (I may be > wrong). Certainly the IMSManifest plugin breaks these protocols. > > >>But then, why not use an ID-Attribute to achieve this? > > > >I just glanced through the Forrest docs that Ross referred to. > >The original mail thread is linked and it shows the use of > >the id attributes. Don't know if that followed through to > >implementation. > > I don't see that. I only see "site:about1/index" type links. In the "Concept" section, Jeff referred to his "Linkmap RT". http://forrest.apache.org/0.7/docs/linking.html#concept See the linkmap RT email thread. --David
