[Dspace-tech] Customizing front page

Hi First of all we are using DSpace 4.2 with xmlui and Mirage 1. We want to add some boxes to the main page of our repository, but seeing the closed XML structure that DSpace have in this xmlui+mirage version we are a little bit confused. For instance we would like to put a news box upside

Re: [Dspace-tech] Customizing front page

Hi Perhaps this will help: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/XMLUI_Theme This should help with the theory at least. Cheers hg *Hilton Gibson* Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator JS Gericke Library Room 1025C Stellenbosch University Private Bag X5036 Stellenbosch 7599 South Africa

Re: [Dspace-tech] Customizing front page

Hi In general, to customize the main page you can override the template xsl:template match=dri:body from dri2xhtml-alt/core/page-structure.xsl template match=dri:body div id=ds-body choose when test=(/dri:document/dri:meta/dri:pageMeta/dri:metadata[@element='request'