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Posted to dev@forrest.apache.org by Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net> on 2003/12/27 22:50:08 UTC

Re: Passing skinconf params to skins/name/** files

Quoting Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>:

> Then I went browsing through the last months of mail on forrest-dev, and 
> the "meta*" threads got me thinking... why don't we simply aggregate 
> skinconf.xml in the page feed?
> 
> Thus our page will be made of:
> 
>   current:
>   - menu
>   - tabs
>   - page
> 
>   new:
>   - skinconf
>   - metadata (eventual and future)
> 

What exactly do you mean by "page" or "page feed" here?  The input to cocoon
when it produces a single page?

> What do you think?
> 
> I will be now adding this support for the CSS as I need it to start 
> coloring the skins. In the meantime let's decide if it's ok also to add 
> this to the main aggregation.
> 

+1

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Re: Passing skinconf params to skins/name/** files

Posted by Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>.
Dave Brondsema wrote:

> Quoting Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>:
> 
>>Then I went browsing through the last months of mail on forrest-dev, and 
>>the "meta*" threads got me thinking... why don't we simply aggregate 
>>skinconf.xml in the page feed?
>>
>>Thus our page will be made of:
>>
>>  current:
>>  - menu
>>  - tabs
>>  - page
>>
>>  new:
>>  - skinconf
>>  - metadata (eventual and future)
>>
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "page" or "page feed" here?  The input to cocoon
> when it produces a single page?

The xml that is given to site2html, that is the result of aggregation.

Note that this means that other xsl files will thus not have skinconf 
infos, which will thus need to be inserted by the last step.

>>What do you think?
>>
>>I will be now adding this support for the CSS as I need it to start 
>>coloring the skins. In the meantime let's decide if it's ok also to add 
>>this to the main aggregation.
> 
> +1
> 

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