Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Phillips
Conal, This is a good example of a simple aspect, thank you for sharing with everyone. I wanted to address a few points in Dorothea's email On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote: >> I agree on the separation of concerns, adding content to the page >> should be a different task than

Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Diggory
I agree with much of what you say concerning how concerns are separated. I'll only add that the proposed aspect is useful to a "specific site" as well as "generally useful" in that it would allow the site admin to define the content of the site separate from any specific theme in that site (

Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
Here's how I see it, FWIW. 1 The aspect chain collects all of the information that might be relevant to a query, and throws it all in a bucket. That bucket is the DRI document. 2 A theme fishes around in the bucket, pulls out all of the interesting stuff (according to the theme's desi

Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-05 Thread Dorothea Salo
> I agree on the separation of concerns, adding content to the page > should be a different task than changing its "look and feel". I don't necessarily *disagree* with this, but let me ask: is it possible to shoot some communities/collections/items through a specific Aspect and others not? Becaus

Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Diggory
On Feb 4, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Conal Tuohy wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:59 -0600, Dorothea Salo wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2008 4:23 PM, Conal Tuohy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Recently there was a discussion here about programming Manakin >>> aspects >>> in XSLT. I thought I'd post here a small

Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-04 Thread Conal Tuohy
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:59 -0600, Dorothea Salo wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008 4:23 PM, Conal Tuohy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Recently there was a discussion here about programming Manakin aspects > > in XSLT. I thought I'd post here a small example of something I did here > > to show how it can be

Re: [Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-04 Thread Dorothea Salo
On Feb 4, 2008 4:23 PM, Conal Tuohy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently there was a discussion here about programming Manakin aspects > in XSLT. I thought I'd post here a small example of something I did here > to show how it can be done. Why would one program XSLT into an Aspect rather than a T

[Dspace-tech] example: a Manakin Aspect to modify the breadcrumb trail

2008-02-04 Thread Conal Tuohy
Recently there was a discussion here about programming Manakin aspects in XSLT. I thought I'd post here a small example of something I did here to show how it can be done. I wanted to add a breadcrumb to the breadcrumb trail (so that the first breadcrumb in the trail is the University Library, with