hepabolu wrote:
I now also realise what happened and what the rationale was behind the
way it is currently set up in Daisy:
the main menu bar suggests that there are sub sections: About,
Documentation, Community etc. I wanted to keep that division so I
created the "folders" About, Documentation, Community etc. I focused
more on the appearance of the menu on the left than on the urls. When
there was a discrepancy, I choose the menu above the url.
So, I can either remove the "headers" like About and Documentation and
they have to be added in the daisy-to-forrest conversion, or we have to
settle for a slightly adjusted url space.
It is too complex to have Forrest rebuild the navigation structure in
that way, but it does given me an idea for something that I believe is
manageable.
If we split the navigation document in Diasy into subsections, i.e. at
the point at which the extra URL entries appear, we can then import
those into Forrest's site definition file at the relevant point.
So, in Forrest (site.xml), we currently have::
<xi:include href="cocoon://daisy.site.655"/>
(document 655 is the current, all encompassing navigation document)
this is replaced with
<about label="About">
<xi:include href="cocoon://daisy.site.ABOUT_NAV_SECTION"/>
</about>
<documentation label="Documentation">
<xi:include href="cocoon://daisy.site.DOCUMENTATION_NAV_SECTION"/>
</documentation>
etc.
This should work without any modifications to the Forrest plugin.
A nice side effect is that it will result in a smaller, more manageable
navigation structure in Daisy whilst (I think) the complete nav document
can be reconstructed in Daisy using import nodes in much the same way as
in Forrest above. We may even be able to use this to recreate the
site.xml file in Forrest, but if not hand coding in Forrest will be a
quick fix for this release.
If someone else can handle the Daisy end of things I can handle to
Forrest end, but probably not until Friday as most of tomorrow (GMT) is
a travelling day. If anyone wants to handle the Forrest end beofore
then, the above examples should be enough, if not David and/or the
Forrest user list will help out I am sure.
Ross
