On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Conal Tuohy wrote: so many ideas !!!
i'll spent some time to this technic thnx con > See also http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=MetaStylesheets > > In this technique, an html template containing some kind of markup for > dynamic layout is transformed into a stylesheet which is then applied to a > content document. Then you can have a template like this which can function > as a kind of "skin" for "underlying" html documents: > > <html> > <head> > <title>My Website - {/html/head/title}</title> > > ... > > and transform the string containing {/html/head/title} into an <xsl:value-of > select="/html/head/title"/> statement. With a few custom attributes in the > HTML you can markup repetition and conditional. e.g. to produce a list of > the heading 1 elements: > > <ul> > <li blah:for-each="/html/body//h1">{.}</li> > </ul> > > Cheers > > Con > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Hartmann > > Sent: Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:58 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: html templates - best practise > > > > > > Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > > > > Le Vendredi, 3 oct 2003, ΰ 14:41 Europe/Zurich, Derek Hohls > > a ιcrit : > > > > > >> ...My feeling is that use of Cocoon must change some aspects > > >> of how you work... if you do not want to change, then maybe > > >> stick to JSP or other template-type systems?... > > > > > > I didn't follow the beginning of this discussion, but wouldn't a > > > technique like the "style-free XSLT" presented in > > > http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2000/07/26/xslt/xsltstyle.html > > allow one to > > > work with "visible" HTML templates, even if doing the > > transformations in > > > XSLT? > > > > > > I haven't used this yet but the idea looks really interesting. > > > > Actually, it is extremely useful. Some Lenya publications are using > > it, and the major benefit is the separation of real XHTML layout > > and presentation logic. The XSLTs become more readable and maintenance > > is simplified. The cocooncenter article I mentioned in my previous > > mail to this thread is based on exactly this xml.com article. > > > > Andreas > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
