Re: [Dspace-tech] xmlui customizations
There's a wee HOWTO at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Modify_item_metadata_display_(Manakin) that could probably do with a bit of updating and some examples added. Cheers, Kim -Original Message- From: Mark H. Wood [mailto:mw...@iupui.edu] Sent: Thursday, 30 April 2009 9:01 a.m. To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] xmlui customizations On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:19:00PM -0400, Jeffrey Trimble wrote: So, I do need to customize the *.xsl files that are stored in the dri2xhtml directory huh?! Well, I'd leave those alone and just copy what you need into a theme, then customize it there, but yes, your starting point is in there. One further questions, since I have been in those files looking at them. Is it possbile to code more indepth HTML coding like Tables, TR, TD or will cocoon cough at this during transformation? I think you could, but haven't tried anything extensive myself. Cocoon is just running the XSL engine over its inputs. If you keep the namespaces straight, HTML should just flow through. What you have to watch is how the various XSL bits assemble the page, so you wind up with well-formed HTML. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] xmlui customizations
So, how does one customize the brief item display of fields? I am not able to find a reference to this in the documentation. Any assistance is appreciated. --Jeff Jeffrey Trimble System LIbrarian William F. Maag Library Youngstown State University 330.941.2483 (Office) jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu http://www.maag.ysu.edu http://digital.maag.ysu.edu -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] xmlui customizations
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:24:16PM -0400, Jeffrey Trimble wrote: So, how does one customize the brief item display of fields? I am not able to find a reference to this in the documentation. Any assistance is appreciated. Good question! Unless something has changed recently, you didn't miss it in the documentation (and we need to fix that). The various pages are laid out by the Theme which is active for a given URL. (This is determined in config/xmlui.xconf, near the bottom.) So you first need to figure out which Theme you're going to customize. All the Themes I'm aware of inherit a lot of code from what I like to call the Theme library: 'themes/dri2xhtml.xsl' and the components it 'xsl:import's from 'themes/dri2xhtml/*'. In the source kit these are found under 'dspace-xmlui/dspace-xmlui-webapp/src/main/webapp'. There's some discussion on the wiki of copying a Theme to make a new one, if you need to do that. (It's probably a good idea to do so whenever you customize.) You need to fish around in the Theme library to find the bit of XSL that transforms DRI elements into the kind of page you want to alter. The stuff I want to change tends to be in 'dri2xhtml/DIM-Handler.xsl'. Typically you make a copy of that code and place it in your Theme's own something.xsl, making the necessary alterations. That causes your altered version of the template(s) to override the 'import'ed code from the library. I think the area you want is the itemSummaryView-DIM template. I think there's some material on the wiki about getting the raw DRI for an interesting page, which may help to track down the particular transform code for the portion you're interested in. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgppIYl0DrEiZ.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] xmlui customizations
Excellent! So, I do need to customize the *.xsl files that are stored in the dri2xhtml directory huh?! One further questions, since I have been in those files looking at them. Is it possbile to code more indepth HTML coding like Tables, TR, TD or will cocoon cough at this during transformation? --Jeff Jeffrey Trimble System LIbrarian William F. Maag Library Youngstown State University 330.941.2483 (Office) jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu http://www.maag.ysu.edu http://digital.maag.ysu.edu On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:24:16PM -0400, Jeffrey Trimble wrote: So, how does one customize the brief item display of fields? I am not able to find a reference to this in the documentation. Any assistance is appreciated. Good question! Unless something has changed recently, you didn't miss it in the documentation (and we need to fix that). The various pages are laid out by the Theme which is active for a given URL. (This is determined in config/xmlui.xconf, near the bottom.) So you first need to figure out which Theme you're going to customize. All the Themes I'm aware of inherit a lot of code from what I like to call the Theme library: 'themes/dri2xhtml.xsl' and the components it 'xsl:import's from 'themes/dri2xhtml/*'. In the source kit these are found under 'dspace-xmlui/dspace-xmlui-webapp/src/main/webapp'. There's some discussion on the wiki of copying a Theme to make a new one, if you need to do that. (It's probably a good idea to do so whenever you customize.) You need to fish around in the Theme library to find the bit of XSL that transforms DRI elements into the kind of page you want to alter. The stuff I want to change tends to be in 'dri2xhtml/DIM-Handler.xsl'. Typically you make a copy of that code and place it in your Theme's own something.xsl, making the necessary alterations. That causes your altered version of the template(s) to override the 'import'ed code from the library. I think the area you want is the itemSummaryView-DIM template. I think there's some material on the wiki about getting the raw DRI for an interesting page, which may help to track down the particular transform code for the portion you're interested in. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] xmlui customizations
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:19:00PM -0400, Jeffrey Trimble wrote: So, I do need to customize the *.xsl files that are stored in the dri2xhtml directory huh?! Well, I'd leave those alone and just copy what you need into a theme, then customize it there, but yes, your starting point is in there. One further questions, since I have been in those files looking at them. Is it possbile to code more indepth HTML coding like Tables, TR, TD or will cocoon cough at this during transformation? I think you could, but haven't tried anything extensive myself. Cocoon is just running the XSL engine over its inputs. If you keep the namespaces straight, HTML should just flow through. What you have to watch is how the various XSL bits assemble the page, so you wind up with well-formed HTML. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Friends don't let friends publish revisable-form documents. pgpw35vUD1Nnb.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
