Hi Ate,
Thanks for all this, it definitely helps clear out some definitions that haven't been very clear in my mind. I have a few questions and remarks, that you can find below...
At 19:58 22.06.2004, you wrote:
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*Folder*
A Folder is an aggregate of Pages, Folders and Links. It is not viewable or renderable but only used to group its
elements in an ordered manner. Its elements all have a parent reference to their containing Folder.
The Folder structure and hierarchy is the basis for Page navigation, layout, decoration and Menu rendering.
There is only one root Folder without parent. That simplifies the definition of default Decorators and Decorations.
When you say a folder is not renderable, you mean it's content is never shown as per say, and it doesn't have any decorator, but it does appear in the menu right ?
*Folder elements*
A Folder element (Page, Folder, Link) is defined within it or may be a reference to a element defined in another Folder
(like Unix symbolic links), which may be a reference in itself.
Deleting an element will result in references defined to become invalid.
Elements which are a reference to another Element defined in another Folder will have as parent the Folder containing
them. For referenced Folder elements though, its elements will still have as parent the referenced Folder itself, not
the Folder reference. This means that navigating to an element within a referenced Folder will result in a change of the
parent hierarchy.
How would symbolic links work ? Could they survive folder moving ? (not deleting but moving) ? One of the problems of using hierarchical structures is maintaining integrity when using links (that are actually artifacts to bypass the hierarchic structure). In a more general way, could we move folders and or folder elements around ?
<!-- Folder elements displayed in the menu (in the current example in tabmenu if level < 3 or in treemenu otherwise)
in the order as defined
-->
<elements>
<page id="page1" description="Page 1"/> <page ref="../../subfolder2/page8"/> <page ref="/subfolder1/subfolder2/page9" description="Page 9" />
<folder id="subfolder1"/> <folder ref="/subfolder1/subfolder3"/>
<link url="http://www.apache.org"; description="Home Apache" target="_self"/>
<link url="http://portals.apache.org"; description="Home Apache Portals" target="outside"/>
<!-- hidden elements --> <page id="page2" hidden="true"/> <folder id="subfolder2" hidden="true"/>
</elements>
</folder>
Thanks for the example, it always helps to clear things up ! One question again : how would this be internationalized ? Are descriptions used to be displayed ? If so, how do you specify descriptions for other languages ?
Regards, Serge Huber.
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