Re: [Hypercontent-users] Editable areas

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

Yeah sure, here’s the basics from the template. If you want my full 
template sending over then I can do that.

<!-- Main page template-->
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length($rightboxlen)!=0">
<xsl:call-template name="rightcolumn"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<!--orange box text-->
<xsl:template name="rightcolumn">
<xsl:apply-templates 
select="/cms:wrapper/cms:source/page/rightcolumn/html mode="right-box"/>
</xsl:template>

<!--orange box title-->
<xsl:call-template name="rightcolumntitle"/>
<xsl:apply-templates 
select="/cms:wrapper/cms:source/page/rightcolumn/@title 
mode="right-box-title"/>
</xsl:template>

<!--orange box mode-->
<xsl:template match="html" mode="right-box">
<xsl:call-template name="rightcolumntitle"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<!--orange box title mode-->
<xsl:template match="html" mode="right-box-title">
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:template>

Thanks
Carl



Alex Vigdor wrote:

> Carl,
> Could you send along the XSL you're applying to this XML? That will 
> make it easier to understand what might be going wrong.
>
> Alex
>
> On Jan 25, 2005, at 6:02 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:
>
>> Thanks very much for that, all working fine. I have changed things a 
>> little and set a title on a repeating rightcoloumn element :
>>
>> <!ELEMENT page (rightcolumn*,bodytext,leftcolumn?)>
>> <!ELEMENT rightcolumn (html)>
>> <!ELEMENT bodytext (html)>
>> <!ELEMENT leftcolumn (html)>
>> <!ATTLIST rightcolumn title CDATA #REQUIRED>
>>
>> I have tried to get the titles into each box but have been having 
>> trouble. It ether displayed the last one in all the boxes or it 
>> displayed all the tiles above the boxes. Any Pointers on this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Carl
>>
>> Alex Vigdor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Carl,
>>> The trick here is that your right boxes are stored in html elements, 
>>> which are also used in different contexts in the document. XSL 
>>> provides the notion of "modes" on templates to allow you to 
>>> different things with the same elements in different contexts. I.e.
>>>
>>> <xsl:template name="rightcolumn">
>>> <xsl:apply-templates 
>>> select="/cms:wrapper/cms:source/page/rightcolumn/html" 
>>> mode="right-box"/>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> <xsl:template match="html" mode="right-box">
>>> <!-- do whatever creates the visual box -->
>>> <div class="right-box-style">
>>> <!-- this will pass through to the original, non-moded html template 
>>> to generate the box contents -->
>>> <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
>>> </div>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2005, at 6:19 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alex/Adam
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much. I have a repeating element for the right boxs in 
>>>> there and it allows the users to add as many as they want at the 
>>>> moment, I haven't decided weather I'am going to restrict them, 
>>>> although I think it might be wise.
>>>>
>>>> My DTD for the full page content is :
>>>> <!ELEMENT page (rightboxes,bodytext,leftcolumn?)>
>>>> <!ELEMENT rightboxes (html*)>
>>>> <!ELEMENT bodytext (html)>
>>>> <!ELEMENT leftcolumn (html)>
>>>> <!ATTLIST bodytext CDATA #REQUIRED>
>>>>
>>>> In my template I have a variable that contains the content of 
>>>> rightbox/html :
>>>> <xsl:variable name="rightboxlen" 
>>>> select="/cms:wrapper/cms:source/page/rightbox/html" />
>>>>
>>>> I then check if that is not 0 and put the box in there :
>>>> <xsl:choose>
>>>> <xsl:when test="string-length($rightboxlen)=!0">
>>>> <xsl:call-template name="rightcolumn"/>
>>>> </xsl:when>
>>>> <xsl:otherwise>
>>>> <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>>>> </xsl:otherwise>
>>>> </xsl:choose>
>>>>
>>>> The rightcolum template being (taking out html):
>>>> <xsl:template name="rightcolumn">
>>>> <xsl:apply-templates 
>>>> select="/cms:wrapper/cms:source/page/rightcolumn/html"/>
>>>> <xsl:if test="$filedate">
>>>>
>>>> All works fine....apart from the fact that it puts all the html 
>>>> elements for rightbox is the same box on the page. I can see why 
>>>> it's doing that but I can't figure out how to get them in separate 
>>>> boxes.
>>>>
>>>> Can you help with that at all?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all you help
>>>> Carl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At the moment, I'm checking if the
>>>>
>>>> Alex Vigdor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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