Mark Lundquist wrote:
Hi!
I'm a Cocoon veteran, but a Lenya newbie. After nearly a year of
lurking and dipping my toe in the water every so often, I'm ready to
take the plunge and start making Lenya sites. So, I'd be grateful for
any help, starting with a few random questions... :-) Please feel free
to refer me to any Wiki pages or other relevant sources that I may have
missed... :-)
1) Editors
From what I gather, it's like this...
Mozfox: BXE/Bitflux or Kupu
IE: Kupu
For IE, Xopus is available (www.xopus.com).
Pretty neat editor based on client-side XSLT processing,
but quite expensive.
BTW, Kupu is (X)HTML only, BXE and Xopus can edit (virtually)
any XML structure.
Anything else, e.g. Safari: eff U! :-)
— Is this right?
— pros/cons (for Mozfox, I guess, if that's the only plaform where you
have a choice)?
IMO that depends on personal taste.
BXE is easy to start with when you need non-XHTML XML editing.
- ...and could I have found that info on the Wiki or somewhere else if
I'd known where to look?
- http://bxe.oscom.org/demo talks about an "old", "quite stable but not
maintained anymore" version of the editor, and also a "latest and
greatest Next Generation" version with "missing stuff and a lot of known
bugs", and sends you off to http://wiki.bitfluxeditor.org/ if you want
to find out about it. Which verision does Lenya use?
It's 1.1.0-dev at the moment.
It has its pitfalls (not being able to edit attribute values
in text mode is annonying), but nevertheless very useful.
- From the demos it looks like I can choose my editor from a drop-down
whenever I edit... is there a preferences page where the user can "set
and forget" their choice of editors?
You have to configure the menu
(pubs/default/config/menus/default.xsp for the default publication)
(And since apparently on all but
Mozfox there is no choice... and for some browsers, no editor!... should
Lenya be a little smarter that way? :-)
You could certainly add a dynamic menu configuration.
2) 1.4
How close is it to being ready for prime time?
It was closer than it is now ...
We're currently discussing whether we should do a JCR-only approach
in 1.4, which would probably increase the final stability and
robustness, but delay the release. If we decide against it, we could
probably release in about 1 month (just a vague guess).
3) Starting from scratch, importing content
http://wiki.apache.org/lenya/OverviewGettingStarted has a section
"Starting from scratch" for "1.4-dev". Can I also "start from scratch"
with 1.2.3?
Or alternatively (maybe), is there a way to build Lenya with an empty
"default" publication, i.e. without the default content?
Not out of the box. See solprovider's recommendations.
4) Losing the ".html"
I'm seriously not a fan of ".html" bunged onto the end of page URLs.
I've just never done it that way, and I don't care for it. How
hard-wired into Lenya is this convention? If I don't want it, is it
really just as easy as tweaking the sitemap?
Actually it should. The default publication's DocumentBuilder
(the class responsible for analyzing which document a URL refers to)
doesn't make any assumptions regarding the URL suffix.
-- Andreas
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