Brian, Here is my plan:
1. Copy pelt and common skins to my Forrest site 2. Make needed changes to my local copies of above skins 3. Get my changes committed to SVN, in order to simplify future Forrest upgrades, reduce duplication of custom files between my multiple Forrest sites, and possibly help other Forrest users Right now I am stuck at step 2. I decided that it would be better to make a user-set variable to control whether to suppress the "Last Modified" text in the pelt skin's header and footer. I used an xsl:choose element to emulate an if/else construct. An xsl:when element tests a skinconfig variable named "disable-last-published". The problem is that I do not know where to declare user-defined skin variables such as "disable-last-published". I cannot declare my variable in skinconf.xml, because the name of my variable is not included in the list of legal elements in the skinconfig DTD. Furthermore, it appears that I would have to modify some other skin files in order for the skin to make my variable available for testing in my xsl:when element. Initially I was going to declare my variable in forrest.properties, but I did not know what name to use. I tried setting "disable-last-published=true" but this did not seem to work. I know my changes to the pelt skin work because I made the changes unconditional at first. However, now I am trying to get both the variable declaration and the conditional xsl template working. I realise this is a poor idea since I am dealing with 2 unknowns, but I did not anticipate getting sidetracked by searching for the right place to declare my variable. Thanks, Brolin
