I am looking into what it would take to convert our jspui interface into a manakin instance. Way back ( perhaps about 5 years ago ), we took the jspui interface and made it our own. In doing this we moved things around, for example, we have the browsing choices that normally appear on the left of the page show up on the header, and also the search box. I was just looking at how I would go about doing this in the xmlui world and my guess is that I'd have to change the aspect code to generate new more granular XML of the stuff that appears on the left, which I think presently is clumped-up together as "options", this way I can put the browsing stuff close to the logo and the searching stuff towards the right of the header. Then I have to change the theme code to handle this new DRI. Take a look at what we have now:
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/ I believe that in the jspui interface this is easier to change than in the xmlui interface because you just need to edit the header jsp file to include this and remove it from the jsp file that displays it on the left. I can see that if you are interested in keeping the location of elements as they are in the xmlui display why perhaps xmlui would be a better interface, but what about when you are trying to move elements around as I am, it seems like then you have a lot more code to modify than you would in the jspui interface. The reason we are thinking of moving over to xmlui are the following: 1. We have a need to have certain collections in our instance that look very different from others, and xmlui facilitates this. In jspui I'd have to add some hardcoded exception code, which could get a bit messy, but after looking at what I need to do to the xmlui interface, I think it would be less complicated. 2. Dspace is moving away from jspui, and therefore we want to make sure we don't get stuck using an interface that may become obsolete. Is this true? I know that a lot of institutions use the xmlui interface, and I wonder what kind of changes to the out-of-the-box manakin themes they've made. Could someone tell me about their experience? I've also heard about how much better xmlui is than jspui, and I'm wondering in what sense? What makes you like one more than the other? Thank you for your thoughts. Jose ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
