Re: Tabs and menu

[David Crossley <cr...@indexgeo.com.au>]

Bert Van Kets wrote:
> Thanks David.
> I'm working on the menu and tabs now.  The problem I'm having
> is in knowing what file is selected in the sub menu's.

In the documentation pipeline for Cocoon's own xdocs
this is done with the book2menu transformation.
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-cocoon2/src/documentation/stylesheets/book2menu.xsl
at line 41
it adds a <span class="menuselected"> around the menu item.

The URI of the current page is passed into the stylesheet
via parameter $resource and compared with the href attribute
of the <menu-item>

For some reason this behaviour was dropped when the
initial stylesheets were set up for Forrest.

> Seems the Cocoon site is still having the same problem.

Not sure what you mean here.

> Steven, is your "book.xml on steroids" coping with this problem, or need I 
> go further on this?
> 
> The Tabs have the same problem.  It's not clear to me whether tabs span a 
> sub-directory or a certain number of book.xml files.  I'll have to check 
> the archives, unless someone can fill me in here.
> What's the selection criteria for the tab?  The most obvious one is "the 
> user selected it", but that needs to be stored somewhere.  Where????