Tim Williams wrote:
On 8/29/05, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ferdinand Soethe wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
The *implementation* of the move to XHTML2 would be eased considerably
by refactoring our sitemaps to use the locationmap.
Why is that? In my limited understanding lm allows to specify the
location of a resource in more sophisticated ways, where is the
connection?
Right now the sitemaps are a complex web of possible locations for many
resources, with extensive tests for the existence of a file. These are
duplicated across many sitemaps. The LM will remove all of that by
having a central file describing the location of resources.
That is, there will be only one place to edit as we replace chunks of
the sitemap functionality.
Tim reports that the
project locationmap mount doesn't work properly yet, but unless he tells
us otherwise I think we can safely move forward with this refactoring.
Not sure this kind of lazy consensus is the right approach here. I
understand is that Tim has pointed out a problem with the lm
implementation. Should it not be up to us now to demo that this
problem has been solved (us of course including Tim :-) rather than
expecting Tim to object?
No, you misunderstand the issue Tim has identified.
As Locationmaps currently stand there is only one locationmap file. Tim
is working on allowing that file to import a project locationmap as
well. The project locationmap will be able to override the default
locationmap, thus users can customise Forrests directory layout without
having to redefine the whole thing.
Tim is having a problem with this *extension* to the locationmap not
with the locationmap itself, which works perfectly.
This is correct, it does *not* effect the refactoring work. Anyway, I
hope to have this resolved within the next day or so anyway so that we
can mount project-level locationmaps *if* they exist.
Thanks to Ferdinand for highlighting this potential oversight and Tim
for confirming my thoughts were correct. If I'd been incorrect this
could have made a mess ;-)
Ross
