On Sep 29, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:12:25AM -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
>>> What makes this different from our other SSI uses is we need to limit
>>> the number of articles displayed. We want to avoid having an
>>> open-ended list of articles appear on the home page, since that would
>>> just length the page and put the important footer info far down. It
>>> would be ugly as well. So ideally we want some logic that puts the
>>> 5 or so most recent stories on the home page, and then puts the full
>>> list of articles on the dedicated news page. Or maybe even does
>>> something fancier, like group articles by month or year on the news
>>> page. But minimum requirement is probably to be able to limit number
>>> of articles on home page.
>>>
>>> Is this something that is easy/possible to do with the way we're using
>>> the CMS?
>>
>
> Well it would be done with the CSS "frame" idea I mentioned. So we could
> limit the initial length. and basically enwble a scrolling like approach..
>
>
>> the main Apache site uses a module to generate the "News",
>> http://openejb.apache.org/ too.
>>
>
> Ariel --
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. This approach was mentioned in that same
> chat I had concerning ssi, but I couldn't readily find any additional
> information. So, I'll take a look when I get a moment.
>
> and ...
>
> @Dave, re ssi. I know we use these for the header portion but I also
> realize this is a like a one time thing that basically only happens at site
> build (commit, publish) and is not a continual dynamic parse like enabling
> ssi for the site would be, right?
Correct.
> There seemed to be concern about the
> overhead for ssi on a continual basis, even with specifying say an ".shtml"
> extension. Plus, the concern about enabling this for such limited use.
>
> Anyway, if we could do this via the CMS for "occasional" news items, ti
> would be better I guess.
Exactly. Just edit a news.xml file and setup the CMS to use xsltproc.
>
> More investigation needed...
Please see my response in the consultants thread. This has almost the whole
explanation. Additional information pertinent to both threads:
(1) templates/html_fragment.html
A new template is required for generated html fragments.
<div id="{{ headers.divid }}">{% block content %}{{ content|safe }}{% endblock
%}</div>
The headers.divid can be injected in (3) below.
(2) lib/path.pm
Has name to lib/view.pm proc and templates/ mappings for different file types.
XSLT types will need to be added. (Also for consultants.xml)
our @patterns = (
[qr!doctype.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "doctype.html" }],
[qr!brand.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "brand.html" }],
[qr!footer.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "footer.html" }],
[qr!topnav.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "navigator.html" }],
[qr!leftnav.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "navigator.html" }],
[qr!rightnav.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "navigator.html"
}],
[qr!\.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "single_narrative.html"
}],
[qr!\.html$!, html_page => { template => "html_page.html" }],
[qr!\.htm$!, html_page => { template => "html_page.html" }],
) ;
Add something like the follwoing to convert an xml into an html file to be
included via ssi.
[qr!news.xml$!, news_page => { template => "html_fragment.html" }],
Add something like the following to convert an xml into a full site page.
[qr!consultatnts.xml$!, consultants_page => { template => "html_page.html"
}],
(3) lib/view.pm
news_page and consultants_page are new procedures. See xsltproc information on
the other thread.
Regards,
Dave
>
>
>> See
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/newsfeed/README.txt
>> It seems the DEFAULT_FEED_LOCATION is set to
>> http://blogs.apache.org/foundation/feed/entries/rss , see
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/newsfeed/src/org/apache/site/Newsfeed.java
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Ariel Constenla-Haile
>> La Plata, Argentina
>>
>
>
>
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