On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 14:45 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi,
Hi James, http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/actions.html I reckon you can use a "simple" action to extract a random link and the pass it to the xsl via a sitemap parameter. This way the features described by solprovider should be easy to implement with a nice java component. salu2 > > Some interesting ideas here! > > It doesn't have to be strictly "Page of the day" ("Page of the browser > refresh" is fine for our purposes). It would just be leaves, not > categories, doesn't have to include every page of a certain document > type but rather a hand-picked selection and doesn't have to be > especially random. > > I was thinking of a manually updated file of page URLs maintained by the > administrator with a bit of JavaScript(?) that picks a "random" URL from > the file and 'somehow' extracts the page title (for use as link text) and > the correct thumbnail filename (which should be easy as the primary image > filename is a subset of the page URL). > > Regards, > > James > > P.S., You are aware that XSLT is Turing-complete aren't you ;-) Jesting > aside, thanks for your HOWTO pages, I refer to them frequently. > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:08:27 -0400 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Random page of the day script > > > > "Page of the Day" implies daily update so the update function should > > be scheduled once each day. Cache the pagelet. Delete the homepage > > from cache so it updates to include the new material.. > > > > The selection should exclude the homepage. Only include leaves or > > should category pages be included? Should editors set a flag on pages > > that should be included? Maintain list of previously chosen pages to > > prevent frequent repeats. How many items on recently used list? > > > > Use XMAP and XSL to create list of possible pages. Add a random > > number to each item. Use the page with the lowest number. > > > > The main design decision is how to create the random numbers. A > > completely XSL solution would be fun, but a custom transformer that > > adds a "random" attribute to every element (excluding root) would be > > simple. > > > > solprovider > > > > On 9/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We want to provide a thumbnail on the home-page which represents and links > >> to a random page of the day under Lenya. The random pages don't > >> necessarily have to selected "live" (I was thinking of dumping the URLs > >> to a file periodically and making some sort of script to select one). > >> > >> So, has anyone done something similar? What's the easiet way to do it? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> James > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > "Hey Microsoft, where do you want to 'SCO' today?" :-) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf-eu.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
