FYI . Bob is from Nexaweb.
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:22 AM
Subject: Fw: General questions
Bob , Ben :
Based on discussion on Ofbiz newsgroup,
Correct me if my understanding is not at best with XAL and Ofbiz.
I would advocate
a.. Take ftl files from Ofbiz.
a.. Separate Markup with FTL tags. Now we have 2 XML file. (1) Markup
View file and (2) another file have @ofbiz type id file
b.. Same ftl file could be regenerated using XSLT combination of (1) and
(2)
b.. Change file (1) change it to .xal file which file (3). I assume all html
tags are valid in XAL.
a.. You may selectively update with better looking controls
b.. XSLT can update widgets selectively.
c.. Think about working Ofbiz widgets with nexaweb widgets.
c.. Use XSLT to merge (3) with (2) to get new .ftl (4) file which are XAL
files.
Now we have (4) xal files rendered from ftl files. It should look better
Atleast it will get xal inside ofbiz. Get visibility
All my ideas may not be best hack but hoping some turn out to be :) Please
correct me if there is better approach.
Chand
>> (2) XAL - Let me talk to Bob from nexaweb, we can help you convert
>> in mass to XAL-HTML . Think about it.
>
> This looks like a nice tool and it would be great to use it going
> forward.
>
> I don't like the idea of doing any sort of mass conversion because
> many pages simply don't need AJAX-like functionality, and it would be
> best to keep these as simple and multi-browser friendly as possible.
> Simplicity has other advantages too, like being easier to create and
> maintain in general.
>
