Sean and Mislav thanks for the responses --
For what it's worth, below is the use case for dynamic
attributes in Snippets. There are things that I'd like to see added to
a Radiant release more and before than this without question (page
reordering and reparenting please), but at least here is a use case for
the record of what I think could be an easy, useful and possibly
in-scope extension to Snippets.
An Article Summary Template
I work with a designer for most everything I do. His HTML/CSS
skills are poor. We are just finishing-up a site (
http://diopa.grimedesign.com)
and in that site on several pages we pull-in the summary part of an
article and attached a nice little header which spits out the name of
the Section and the date the Article was posted before the title. This
summary pattern repeats many times and is always the same except that
we like to customized the link text which goes to the full article.
Everything else is dynamic.
So I say to Paul, no problem I'll just through that little set
of tags into a snippet such that he can do a
<r:find url="">
<r:snippet name="summary" linkText="Read more about this on
ECS News" />
</r:find>
This means that he doesn't have to copy and paste a format for
this summary over and over as he populates the site with content. It
also of course means we don't have to change it in all those spots if
we want to change something global outside the scope of the CSS in this
summary format.
We had considered using another page part called "linkText' to
accomplish the same end, however we have situations where the same
article is posted in multiple places on the site in different contexts
and the link text changes accordingly.
Without any of these options working we're left with the
acceptable, though less than preferable solution of:
<r:find url="" >
<div class="articleSummary">
<r:snippet name="ArticleSummary"
/>
<r:link class="more">Read more
about this on ECS News...</r:link>
</div>
</r:find>
Cheers,
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