Hey, i work in the web industry with our own inhouse CMS. Using CMSMS is a home project. Can I use XSL to create templates? or is it just XHTML?
Will
XHTML and XSL
Re: XHTML and XSL
XSL ?
extensible stylesheet language ?
extensible stylesheet language ?
Re: XHTML and XSL
XHTML is about the only thing. In theory, you could probably get some kind of XSL thing going, but I don't think the XSLT addon for php is a very popular add-on. You'd probably be compiling it from scratch. And even then, I'm not sure where you'd stick in the transformation code...
In other words, no XSL without some decent amounts of work.
In other words, no XSL without some decent amounts of work.
Re: XHTML and XSL
Whilst I use XML/XSL quite a lot for transformation of data, I'm not quite sure why you would want to use it in this instance? The template module in CMS works pretty well. Any particular reason for you request?
Russ
Russ
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xploit-design
Re: XHTML and XSL
Server-side manipulation of data thats adds an element of programing to make pages display what I want it to. Ive only just got CMSMS I suppose I need to explore it a bit better.
Re: XHTML and XSL
Sorry, I didn't mean to be aloof, on re-reading my comments it might have appeared that way 
. Well I guess there is no reason why you shouldn't include results from XSL transformation. Perhaps the easiest would be to write a user based tag to run your transformation via PHP and display the results? This presumes, as Ted points out, you have the necessary PHP bits installed.
Is this what you were after? Or is it something completely different?
Russ
. Well I guess there is no reason why you shouldn't include results from XSL transformation. Perhaps the easiest would be to write a user based tag to run your transformation via PHP and display the results? This presumes, as Ted points out, you have the necessary PHP bits installed.Is this what you were after? Or is it something completely different?
Russ
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xploit-design
Re: XHTML and XSL
Yeh it does help...thanx. My practice of building sites is using lots of XSL templates that can be reused...
e.g. having a common template that can be used all through out my sites with basic layout info. A template for a top nav, one for side nav, one for top nav side sub. Rather than having the full code in each page for each site, the code just in one place. a more modular construct.
I suppose I'll just have to do it the long way by creating a collection of templates e.g.
top nav with two column content,
top nav with one colomn and news,
top nav side sub with two column content...etc
But thanks, I'm sure i'll find better ways of using the system as I get more used to it.
e.g. having a common template that can be used all through out my sites with basic layout info. A template for a top nav, one for side nav, one for top nav side sub. Rather than having the full code in each page for each site, the code just in one place. a more modular construct.
I suppose I'll just have to do it the long way by creating a collection of templates e.g.
top nav with two column content,
top nav with one colomn and news,
top nav side sub with two column content...etc
But thanks, I'm sure i'll find better ways of using the system as I get more used to it.
Re: XHTML and XSL
my post was a question...
did i get it right, that is what it stands for?
did i get it right, that is what it stands for?
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xploit-design
Re: XHTML and XSL
Oh sorry Mark. Yeh it is eXstensible Stylesheet Language
Our in house CMS at work kicks out XML then we have a huge collection of XSL templates for whole site schemes aswell as seperate templates holding Menu structure etc... that provides the XHTML for us to style and layout using CSS. Its such a strong robust system as all the programming is esentially done on the server only for some special cases do we need to use JavaScript.
Hense why I'm so hyped about XSL!!!
Our in house CMS at work kicks out XML then we have a huge collection of XSL templates for whole site schemes aswell as seperate templates holding Menu structure etc... that provides the XHTML for us to style and layout using CSS. Its such a strong robust system as all the programming is esentially done on the server only for some special cases do we need to use JavaScript.
Hense why I'm so hyped about XSL!!!
Re: XHTML and XSL
i think these are in the default install, all you may need to do is restyle them...top nav with two column content,
top nav with one colomn and news,
top nav side sub with two column content...etc
or you could see if i have any you could use.... that's all my site is "Templates"...
http://www.multiintech.com/
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xploit-design
Re: XHTML and XSL
Yeh I know, not in this sence. Think of an XSL template as more of a subroutine.
e.g....
Blah blah
The above gets all the pages from the CMS sends em to "mainmenu" which is just a short bit of code putting them in a then returns.
So you see, I can set up one xsl file holding all the common 'templates' for main menu, sub menu, content layouts rather than like it seems you do... creating one file per whole page layout.
e.g....
Blah blah
The above gets all the pages from the CMS sends em to "mainmenu" which is just a short bit of code putting them in a then returns.
So you see, I can set up one xsl file holding all the common 'templates' for main menu, sub menu, content layouts rather than like it seems you do... creating one file per whole page layout.
Re: XHTML and XSL
are you under the impression my CSS are one long style sheet?creating one file per whole page layout.
actualy i have 196 style sheets, for 66 templates...
s**t no wonder i have 10 pages of style sheets, never counted them before...
as for menus, the system you mention, does it apply the styling to the menu also? or does it just go get the pages and return an ul li ...
i've changed the menu engine templates to make the ul li with the CSS calls i need to the tune of about 30 templates...
is there an OSS version of this system i could look at, play with, learn...
