Re: [Hypercontent-users] editable areas

[Alex V. <av...@co...>]

Hi Carl,
	If you want to provide WYSIWYG editing for visually distinct parts of 
the page, there are two approaches.  You can build up the content in 
one file, for example if you have a page which has an abstract, body 
text and an optional sidebar:

<!ELEMENT page (abstract,body,sidebar?)>
<!ELEMENT abstract (html)>
<!ELEMENT body (html)>
<!ELEMENT sidebar (html)>

The XML editor replaces any instance of the 'html' tag with a WYSIWYG 
area, so this would give you three distinct editable areas, which you 
could refer to by the name of their enclosing element in XSL

<xsl:variable name="sidebar" 
select="/cms:wrapper/cms:source/page/sidebar/html"/>

The other possible approach is to break the editable areas out into 
separate files, which may not have their own form of output, but which 
are included into the target page at build time.  There are two reasons 
you might want to do this; either because you want to apply different 
permissions to these sub-components, or because the sub-component is of 
a repeating type and you don't want your page file to get too large.  A 
classic example is announcements for the home page; there can be any 
number of announcements, and you may want to allow someone to edit 
announcements without changing anything else on the home page.

e.g.

<xml-doctype path="/announcements/*" label="Announcement" root="html"/>

<xml-doctype path="/index.xml" ...>
	<output type="text/html>
		<include source="/announcements/* data="yes" metadata="yes"/>
		<transform ... />
	</output>
</xml-doctype>


-Alex

On Nov 11, 2004, at 4:46 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a template set up with one main editable area and a second 
> editable area which displays the page description.  I need to add two 
> more editable areas to the page. What would be the best/simplest  way 
> to do this?
>
> Many thanks
> Carl
>
>
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