Re: [htdig3-dev] customizing result HTML

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At 05:18 PM 4/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>According to [saram.net] Information Center:
>> I'm trying to customize the HTML on the search result page and in need for
>> some help locating a sample HTML.
>> I've browsed the htdig website and found a tip and I've included the
>> following lines in the new config file.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> search_results_header: ${common_dir}/new_header.html
>> search_results_footer: ${common_dir}/new_footer.html
>> template_map:  Long long builtin-long \
>>                Short short builtin-short \
>>                Default default ${common_dir}/new_result.html
>> template_name: Default
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>A couple problems:  first of all, the example for template_map in the
>documentation is wrong.  htsearch selects the builtin templates based on
>the internal name, not the file name, so to use a builtin-* template,
>the second name in the triplet must be builtin-long or builtin-short,
>and the third name is ignored.  The documentation erroneously says
>that it uses the file name.  I don't know whether we should fix the
>documentation or the code.  Anyone have a recommendation?
>
>Secondly, the template_name also selects the template by its internal
>name, and not by its display name (first in triplet).  In your case,
>it's the same name, because it does a case-insensitive comparison, but
>if you had different names for display and internal, it wouldn't find it.
>
>So, you should have:
>
>search_results_header: ${common_dir}/new_header.html
>search_results_footer: ${common_dir}/new_footer.html
>template_map:  Long builtin-long builtin-long \
>               Short builtin-short builtin-short \
>               Default default ${common_dir}/new_result.html
>template_name: default
>
>> Everything works fine exept that I didn't have anything to reference for
>> the result.html so I had to comment out the 5th line to use the default
>> result form  which I wouldn't know where to look into.
>> In other words, the htdig install only generated header.html and
>> footer.html files in the ${common_dir} and no result.html file.
>> Could someone post a sample HTML for the result.html file? or tell me where
>> I could find it?
>
>Up to and including 3.1.1, you have to look at htsearch/TemplateList.cc to
>get the builtin templates.  In future releases, samples will be installed
>in common_dir.  Here they are:
>
>long.html:
>----------
><dl><dt><strong><a href="$(URL)">$(TITLE)</a></strong>$(STARSLEFT)
></dt><dd>$(EXCERPT)<br>
><i><a href="$(URL)">$(URL)</a></i>
><font size=-1>$(MODIFIED), $(SIZE) bytes</font>
></dd></dl>
>
>short.html:
>-----------
>$(STARSRIGHT) <strong><a href="$(URL)">$(TITLE)</a></strong><br>
>
>-- 

Which directory am I supposed to put long.html and short.html files?
I've placed the files in ${common_dir} but it didn't make any difference;
of course, I did make some noticeable changes to the default code you gave
me so I know if it does anything.
Also, I'm a bit confused about the difference between the result.html and
long.html+short.html files; do you mean I don't need result.html file when
there are long.html+short.html files?
I did try to create a test 'new_result.html' file (simply put in <h1> tag
in the file) to see if it does anything but it did not; It seems that
'${common_dir}/new_result.html' does not even get looked at by the program
routine despite that the file path is specified in the config file.
Thanks in advance.


Sincerely,

H. Kim


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