Diwaker Gupta wrote:
This is really useful Diwaker - thanks.
Topic: XHTML2 core and Jira cleanup
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Directory Structure and Configuration
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Discussion regarding the directory structure surfaced briefly, but there was
no consensus. It is an important issue that needs a little more discussion,
that will perhaps be taken up in another FT (ForrestTuesday) or hopefully
even earlier. This has been discussed earlier on the dev list:
(I wasn't present at this point... my added thoughts)
Directory structure is not important at this point since using the LM
enables us to change it at any time (documentation not withstanding).
I have no problem with us working with the suggested structure from the
archives.
Some devs expressed concern over the disruption the new layout will bring, and
whether there was really a "need" for a new layout. Eventually the discussion
just died out. IIUC, the bottomline is that we do need a layout change at some
point of time; it just didn't happen today.
Or not usig it ;-)
The LM will save the day (documentation excepted)
Pipeline stages
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Thorsten started a discussion on being able to request any stage of the
pipeline by itself. Cheche also gave some inputs on this. At some point the
discussion digressed to talk about naming (index.tab vs. index.nav.xml) and
other issues (site.xml is data or meta-data; role of editors and content
producers etc). I'm not sure if any concrete conlusion/decision came out of
this discussion.
Later on Ross and Tim got back to this discussion. Ross tossed the idea of
using Cocoon Views (not to be confused with forrest:views) as an alternate
mechanism for achieving the same goals.
No, it was Tim sugesting views. I don't "get" what Tim is trying to
illustrate, he promised an example with respect to meta-data (one day)
My own view is that this part of the discussion was only relevant to the
old skinning system. In views we have no concept of body-**.html or
tabs-**.html. Instead we have named contracts.
To get a particular part of the a page you have two choices:
1) create a specific view for it (Thorsten and I discussed this the mail
archive is linked from the relevant part of the IRC log)
2) add a matcher that allows us to retrive the content of a specific
contract only
**NOTE** 2 is theory only, I have not thought it through
Things to do for XHTML2
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o locationmaps not working in structurer.xmap
o templates: *.ft not being picked up
o theming/navigation not being done
o templates are in the wrong place
o views should be fully configurable by the project (see patch to
forrest-xcore.conf below. This *should not* be needed)
FallbackResolver needs to be replaced by Locationmap work Thorsten is
working on.
Ross
