Hi, Following on from the launch of the Cocoon driven StandardLifeInvestments.com sites, I've been given the go-ahead to offer the code that we developed in order to make our task a bit easier :)
A bit of background will make it easier to understand the changes :) There are various sub-sites within StandardLifeInvestments.com, and for some of these sub-sites, there is content that is shared between them. This content is managed within a "shared" branch inside Teamsite. We have modified FileSourceFactory to return our new FilePathSource 25c80 < public class FilePathSourceFactory extends AbstractLoggable --- > public class FileSourceFactory extends AbstractLoggable 36c91 < Source result = new FilePathSource(location, this.manager); --- > Source result = new FileSource(location, this.manager); 46c101 FilePathSource extends FileSource with functionality that if the filename referred to by the FilePathSource doesn't exist, it passes the name of the file to a class which returns a list of "alternate" names for the file, which FilePathSource then checks for, of course if none of these "alternative" names exist, then it complains about not being able to find the original file, and all is as before. In our production code, there's only one "alternative" name returned, which is the result of a Regex on the original filename to replace the original sitename or Teamsite branch with our "shared" directory. This /hostname.com/pages/prices.xml would be replaced with /shared/pages/prices.xml. What this has allowed us to do, is transparently link content on sites, without having to have some "shared" identified in URIs, as a side-effect (due to being a modification to the resolver), you can have shared XSLT documents too, this might have application (WRT our setup), when you have Apache virtual hosting static content (i.e. images and CSS), you can have a totally shared page, that is customised by CSS and images. If this is of interest to the Cocoon project, I can contribute patches... Thanks again for Cocoon. Kevin --- Kevin McDermott Senior Technologist 0131 476 6000 Cert. TeamSite Consult www.realise.com
