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Hajratwala, Nayan (N.) wrote:
> Unfortunately,  I don't believe this is a very practical approach.
> 
> A content editor may inadvertantly make a change to a tag without even
> noticing it (search & replace, fat-finger, etc).  Then after they upload
> their change to the server and spend a few hours trying to figure out why it
> is displaying an error, they call you, the developer to debug the problem.
> You then compare the previous version (you are using source control, right?)
> with the modified version to see what the problem is... yada-yada.
> 
> We use an approach of having a template which contains all of our "base"
> html .. header, footer, etc.  The content editors can create whatever they
> want (we encourage valid XHTML, but usually don't get anything for our
> efforts), and upload it to the test servers.  Our framework then pulls the
> content into the template via a custom tag (using java.io.*).
> 
> Hope this helps... Happy to provide more details if you need.
> 
> ---
> - Nayan Hajratwala
> - Chikli Consulting LLC
> - http://www.chikli.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenny Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:01 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: content management ideas?
> 
> 
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> ..but that's what JSP is designed to be... html developer friendly. Once you
> create the page with all of the struts tags, they should just be able to
> code the html and content around the JSP. I know it's not exactly what you
> were expecting, but my suggestion would be to let them modify the JSP, just
> instruct them that they are not supposed to touch the JSP tags.
> 
> Kenny Smith
> JournalScape.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Field-Elliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: content management ideas?
> 
> 
> I was wondering how people handle frequent content updates with
> Struts/JSP? At my company, I'm building a site for which much of the
> "static" content (including things like the CSS stylesheet) will
> probably undergo frequent revision. I'd like to open it up for easier
> access, such as via FrontPage, so that I (the programmer) am not in the
> middle of such changes. But the site is very dynamic, with almost all
> page fetches resulting in a database query and dynamic content being
> built. So the site needs to be JSP-based, and I don't want the
> aforementioned "Frontpagers" modifying the raw JSP pages.
> 
> Opinions appreciated on how this compromise can best be reached,
> 
> Bryan
> 
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