Re: [Hypercontent-users] Editable areas

[Carl B. <C.P...@hu...>]

Hi Adam

If you have any further pointers on this that would be great.  It would 
really finish of what I've been getting setup here.

Thanks
Carl

Alex Vigdor wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>     We do something almost identical to what you are describing on one 
> of our latest sites
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/hr/index.html
>
> If you navigate across the top-level pages you'll notice that each of 
> them has a slightly different box arrangement.  Adam should be able to 
> describe the implementation in more detail, but I believe in XML you 
> could just have a repeating element "right-box" with a single child 
> "html" and an attribute for its title, and in XSL and/or CSS you could 
> set up the actual on-screen positioning.  E.g.
>
> <!ELEMENT page (html,right-box*)>
> <!ELEMENT right-box(html)>
> <!ATTLIST right-box title CDATA #REQUIRED>
>
> and call different templates with "/page/html" vs. 
> "/page/right-box/html".
>
> Alex
>
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex
>>
>> Thanks for the info on downloads.  I'll leave things as they are and 
>> have a look at getting updated to v2 when it's released.
>>
>> I have a question which might not be possible.  If you take a look at 
>> the sample page  http://www.learndev.hull.ac.uk/CB/REOTESTPAGE.html  
>> you will notice that I have  info boxes down the right hand side of 
>> the page and under the menu items on the left.  At the moment I am 
>> dropping these boxes into editable areas in html form which works 
>> great for me but might not for some of the users on campus.  Is there 
>> any way ether now or in future releases of HyperContent that a user 
>> could add as many boxes as the wanted but not have to worry about any 
>> html?  So for example, for the right hand orange boxes the user might 
>> be presented with an option to add 0-3 boxes, then on selection have 
>> the editable text appear for each box.
>>
>> Just something that I thought about.....
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Carl
>>
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