On a more specific note: the current site consists of complete web pages which the templating system munges together with the templates to produce the final pages, i.e. something like:
Document:
<html> <head> <title>My Page</title> </head> <body> the content... </body> </html>
Template:
<html> [% contents of head tag from document %] <body> [% INCLUDE header (title bar, navigation, etc.) %] [% content %] [% INCLUDE footer (modification date, copyright notice, etc.) %] </body> </html>
Result:
<html> <head> <title>My Page</title> </head> <body> header (title bar, navigation, etc.) the content... footer (modification date, copyright notice, etc.) </body> </html>
It seems like the right thing to do in TT is to define a wrapper and put only the content in the document, i.e.:
Document:
[% page_title = "My Page" %] the content...
Wrapper Template:
<html> <head> <title>[% page_title %]</title> </head> <body> [% INCLUDE header (title bar, navigation, etc.) %] [% content %] [% INCLUDE footer (modification date, copyright notice, etc.) %] </body> </html>
Result:
<html> <head> <title>My Page</title> </head> <body> header (title bar, navigation, etc.) the content... footer (modification date, copyright notice, etc.) </body> </html>
I'm worried that this change breaks source document validation, which works under our current arrangement. Am I wrong to worry (i.e. validators do well enough), is the TT approach worth it anyway, or is there a better TT approach that resolves this conflict?
-myk
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