Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the dim:

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Diggory
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote: As noted by Mark Diggory, a Theme may call back into Cocoon with an internal request for more metadata.  I've been meaning to ask why it was done that way. My assumption is that it was done because when all the METS is

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the dim:

2010-05-07 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:12:43PM -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote: [snip] We could all do with an updated theory of operation for the later stages of XMLUI. On a wild tangent... In theory, we might see a day when METS is

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the dim:

2010-05-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Patrick, You are close. Yes there is another XML source that is being rendered, It is not DRI, but METS+DIM and is used as the source for all details about the existing Community, Collection, Item when rendering the view. You will find out more about this source of XML by looking at some

Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-devel] Looking for Resources - Aspect Modification and the dim:

2010-05-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
If you want to change where things are placed on the final page, that is layout, and layout is handled by XSL in the Theme stage. Aspects add substructures to a big XML structure (the DRI document) which holds the nonstatic data that go into the page, and then the Theme takes what it wants from