In addition to the previous email, while I am investigating this issue a bit
I was curious:
Is the XML/DTD validation done with Local or Remote (web based) dtd docs?

It seems like the DTD's are located here
http://forrest.apache.org/dtd/skinconfig-v08-1.dtd

Can the DTDs be made local?


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Bryce Alcock <ba.li...@brycealcock.com>wrote:

> So I will be giving this a try tonight or over the weekend...
> However, I wanted to ask a couple of more questions:
> (just to start people thinking...)
>
> 1.  I would ultimately like to have a solution that requires only
> modifications to my website data, not changes to the Forrest XSL Files.
>      Therefore, can we design/architect a change that can be contributed
> back to Forrest.
> 2.  Most users would want tracking, but they may not want the "Google"
> proprietary tracking,
>      Therefore, is it possible to design it to accept a "CDATA" as aposed
> to a "PCDATA" thus allowing Arbitrary code in the website data.
> 3.  Is it possible to update the DTD Docs with optional fields.  I Kinda
> like the validation.
>
> Bryce
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Steve Wolke <smwo...@geistig.com> wrote:
>
>>  Bryce,
>>
>>
>>
>> You can turn off validation of the skinconfig.xml in the
>> forrest.properties file like the following
>>
>>
>>
>> ##############
>>
>> # validation properties
>>
>>
>>
>> # This set of properties determine if validation is performed
>>
>> # Values are inherited unless overridden.
>>
>> # e.g. if forrest.validate=false then all others are false unless set to
>> true.
>>
>> forrest.validate=true
>>
>> #forrest.validate.xdocs=${forrest.validate}
>>
>> forrest.validate.skinconf=false
>>
>> #forrest.validate.sitemap=${forrest.validate}
>>
>> #forrest.validate.stylesheets=${forrest.validate}
>>
>> #forrest.validate.skins=${forrest.validate}
>>
>> #forrest.validate.skins.stylesheets=${forrest.validate.skins}
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Then to get your property you can just call
>>
>>
>>
>> <xsl:value-of select='//skinconfig/project-tracking'/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* u912boilerma...@gmail.com [mailto:u912boilerma...@gmail.com] *On
>> Behalf Of *Bryce Alcock
>> *Sent:* Friday, September 24, 2010 1:30 AM
>>
>> *To:* user@forrest.apache.org
>> *Subject:* Re: Tracking Codes and Java Script
>>
>>
>>
>> Ok so far so so...
>>
>> I have added the Tracking JavaScript to the site-to-xhtml.xsl file.  And
>> that seems to be working fine.
>>
>> I have added the variable to my skinconfig.xml file in the project
>> directory, And finally I have been looking
>>
>> at how to pull the variable out of the skinconfig.xml and use it in the
>> site-to-xhtml.xsl as a variable.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> However, when I go to build the site I get the following Error:
>>
>>
>>
>> validate-skinconf:
>>
>> /home/bryce/repos/brycealcock/
>> brycealcock.com/src/documentation/skinconf.xml:64:21: Element type
>> "project-tracking" must be declared.
>>
>> /home/bryce/repos/brycealcock/
>> brycealcock.com/src/documentation/skinconf.xml:438:14: The content of
>> element type "skinconfig" must match
>> "(search?,disable-print-link?,disable-pdf-link?,disable-pod-link?,disable-txt-link?,disable-xml-link?,disable-external-link-image?,disable-compliance-links?,obfuscate-mail-links?,obfuscate-mail-value?,disable-font-script?,project-name?,project-description?,project-url?,project-logo,group-name?,group-description?,group-url?,group-logo?,host-url?,host-logo?,favicon-url?,disable-copyright-footer?,year?,vendor?,copyright-link?,trail?,toc?,headings?,feedback?,motd?,extra-css?,colors?,pdf?,credits?)".
>>
>>
>>
>> BUILD FAILED
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> So it is obviously getting validated against a DTD or something, and does
>> not like the fact that I added the
>>
>> <project-tracking>PCDATA</project-tracking>
>>
>>
>>
>> So I need more help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryce
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Steve Wolke <swo...@roughbros.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Bryce,
>>
>>
>>
>> I think this will work.
>>
>>
>>
>> You could add the google analytics code in the  <xsl:template
>> match="site"/> of the common skin file ‘site-to-xhtml.xsl’ in the directory
>> ‘main\webapp\skins\common\xslt\html’ with a variable for the tracking site
>> ID  hat will come from the skinconfig.xml file.  Then put your tracking site
>> ID in the skinconfig.xml file on some new created element and modify the
>> ‘skinconf.xsl’ in the directory ‘main\webapp\skins\common’ to make sure that
>> you handle defaults properly.
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Bryce Alcock [mailto:u912boilerma...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 20, 2010 3:01 PM
>> *To:* user@forrest.apache.org
>> *Subject:* Tracking Codes and Java Script
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I was wondering if there was a simple and systematic way to configure a
>> tracking code into Forrest, for every page.
>>
>>
>>
>> So for a concrete example I would like to add a
>>
>> Google Analytics tracking code to the bottom of each page.
>>
>>
>>
>> Currently I am having to do this by modifying files in the Forrest
>> directories.
>>
>> (This works file with the exception that I have 2 forrest project and I
>> have to keep remembering to change these files...)
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to just be able to specify a tracking code and style or
>> possibly an html/javascript segment,
>>
>> in a Config file such as site.xml or something like that.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryce
>>
>>
>>
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