Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the "dim:"

2010-05-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:12:43PM -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: [snip] > > We could all do with an updated theory of operation for the later > > stages of XMLUI. > > On a wild tangent... In theory, we might see a day when "METS" is > replaced in

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the "dim:"

2010-05-06 Thread Mark Diggory
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > As noted by Mark Diggory, a Theme may call back into Cocoon with an > internal request for more metadata.  I've been meaning to ask why it > was done that way. My assumption is that it was done because when "all" the METS is embedded into th

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the "dim:"

2010-05-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
If you want to change where things are placed on the final page, that is layout, and layout is handled by XSL in the Theme stage. Aspects add substructures to a big XML structure (the DRI document) which holds the nonstatic data that go into the page, and then the Theme takes what it wants from th

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the "dim:"

2010-05-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Patrick, You are close. Yes there is another "XML" source that is being rendered, It is not DRI, but METS+DIM and is used as the source for all details about the existing Community, Collection, Item when rendering the view. You will find out more about this source of XML by looking at some exampl