At Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:40:25 +0100, Emiliano Heyns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Have seen editthispage? It's an interesting idea,although I think
>the implementation
>> they provide -sucks-. Anyway (www.editthispage.com), they allow you
>to control
>> the site layout with XML. It'd be nifty to add XML parsing so that
>you could
>> let people control things with that.
>
>I've taken a brief look at editthispage. The idea is certainly
>interesting, and they
>provide many reusable components, which certainly speeds up site
>development.
>
>The layout mechanism is usuable but inflexible once you've tasted
>Midgard :) and I
Exactly... (unfortunately, my... uh... boss has decided that editthispage
is very nifty. So I'm writing a midgard powered set of scripts to do many
similar things - as a plus, this way I can keep using linux :)
>think they should have gone for all XML or all HTML but not a mixture.
>I
>understand
>the motive (little XML knowledge available, no WYSIXML editors), but
>still.
Hmm... If they went all XML, how would they provide text formatting? It
would be foolish to re-implement HTML, which already provides a wealth of
features...
>
>Midgard can certainly server XML documents, so the interesting point
>is
>at what point
>to apply the style template, and how to construct it.
Yes... one thing that would be nifty (for me) would be to allow people with
an HPage to be able to design their own style via XML or somesuch.
>
>> Good idea. How do I do attachments? (that is, is there a nice elegant
>way
>> to do it, or do I just put a path in an extra field or something?)
>
>mgd_list_files, mgd_get_file, mgd_create_file, mgd_update_file and
>mgd_delete_file
>can be used to 'attach' files to an article. You'll have to store the
-snip-
Please put this info on the web site.... I was wondering if these functions
were even implemented. :)
>
-snips-
Well, now I can get rid of my homegrown approach (this is much nicer. wow.
A -lot- nicer. And its a subset of the get_option set_option stuff I mentioned
in another thread...)
Ben Garney
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