Re: [Hypercontent-users] Editable areas

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

Well, you could limit it to 3 by explicitly declaring each as a 
separate element:

<!ELEMENT page (html,right-box1*,right-box2*,right-box3*)>

It makes for a less appealing DTD, but allows you to keep users from 
trying to add a hundred boxes to a page . . .

Alex

On Jan 20, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Adam Carl wrote:

> Carl,
>
> There is no way using the current interface to do the following:
>
> " 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."
>
> The standard interface is not that flexible.
>
> You could give them the option to add one or more right hand boxes by 
> setting up a dtd.  Alex had a good example.
>
>>> <!ELEMENT page (html,right-box*)>
>>> <!ELEMENT right-box(html)>
>>> <!ATTLIST right-box title CDATA #REQUIRED>
>
> You could also set it up like this:
>>> <!ELEMENT page (html,right-boxes)>
>>> <!ELEMENT right-boxes(html*)>
>>> <!ATTLIST right-box title CDATA #REQUIRED>
>
> This way every html area in the right-boxes element was its own 
> Information html section. Ahh but the problem here would be having a 
> title for each.
>
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2005, at 4:05 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:
>
>> 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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