> We still need some way to build a bag of structured, > labeled data and action handles, so that when a > Theme reaches into the bag it can know what to grab
Yes, right. And this is really easy to do: <label>data</label> It'll probably need to be more complex than that, of course -- but not much. > If we do away with DRI we will have to invent > something almost like it. But what I just described above is nothing like DRI. Unless you count the fact that they are both XML. DRI tries to accomplish a whole bunch of things that a simple attribute-value pair does not. But, IMO, those things are unnecessary. All we *need* is a simple mechanism to get data to the interface. Anything beyond that just complicates and confuses the process. --Dave ================== David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu ________________________________________ From: Mark H. Wood [mw...@iupui.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:40 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] manikin question Well, one thing which occurs to me is that <dri:field type='button'/> should instead be something like <dri:action/> and let the Theme figure out whether it wants to lay out a button (or anything else) which links to the action. These "button" fields are really just abstract handles for things the user can ask to have done. If they weren't *called* buttons, they wouldn't look like presentation. If we do away with DRI we will have to invent something almost like it. We still need some way to build a bag of structured, labeled data and action handles, so that when a Theme reaches into the bag it can know what to grab and make good use of XSL facilities to do so. What's going on here, it seems to me, is that the current design strives for separation of concerns between data and presentation across the Aspect/Theme boundary but perhaps has not quite achieved it, compounded with the use of terms in DRI which we are conditioned to think of as presentational. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
