Look at this quick example http://www.ludovic.org/xwiki/bin/view/Cities/
You won't have the rights to add a city but it's fully dynamic and build on top of standard XWiki Ludovic Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I'm reviewing java, open source CMS and wikis for a project we're soon to > >> begin. >> The project will mirror some of wikipedias functionality in allowing >> collaboration on content to a set of authorized users, content discussion >> and >> versioning. There are a couple of items that are driving me to CMSs vs >> Wikis >> and I'm curious of xwiki might fit the bill. >> > > > Thanks for giving XWiki a look :-) From your short description I'm almost > sure it will fit. Let's see how : > > > >> 1. I need more control of how the content is presented, i.e. strong >> programmaticly enforced templates >> > > > XWiki was _meant_ to provide power user with ways to create templates that > can be used to define exactly how the content should be displayed on a page. > For instance, create an account on XWiki.org, log-in, go to this page : > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/Alenty and click on edit : > you've got in-place edition that follows the defined template. (Please click > on "Cancel" afterwards rather than on "Save"). > > > >> 2. I need something that will store >> portions of the content in separate database fields for more focused >> queries. >> Some of these fields would be text while others would be numerics, dates, >> etc. >> Something like a wikipedia country page but storing the Climate and >> Geology >> sections of geography in their own DB fields and also storing metrics such >> as >> GDP and Population as numbers in a relational database. >> > > > XWiki givs you the ability to define classes. A class is basically made of a > set of properties (I want a "country" class where countryname will be a > string property, countrypopulation will be a number property, countrycities > will be a databaseSimpleList property...) Then you can create new pages that > instanciate objects of this class : you create a page and add a "country" > object to it -> now you can store data in your page in a structured manner > using the object's fields. > > >From your description, that's what I'd call a perfect match. :-) > > The best way to understand the potential of XWiki is to check it out by > yourself. Check out > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Tutorials and specifically > this one : http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial to > see how you could leverage XWiki's feature set for your project. > > Hope this helps, > > Guillaume > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- Ludovic Dubost Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
