Re: XSLT for beginners using Flux CMS?

Hi Simon

for getting a more competent answer, you'll propably have to wait until
Chregu is back from holidays ;)

Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
> 1. What is the minimal requierements for XSLT-based themes for Flux 
> CMS? The ones that come with it are imho. very complex.

It is actually not that complex. There is one template called
master.xsl. It defines the "Master-Layout". So for stuff such as the
header, the sidebars and in general stuff which is supposed to be shown
on all pages, you can have a look there.

The plugins, e.g. the blog or the gallery-Plugin can overwrite all
elements defined in master.xsl.
So, for example, you have a different "#left"-div in the blog, you can
edit this in blog.xsl.

> 2. In what ways are the TAL-themes not as good as the XSLT-ones (when 
> looking at the ones bundled with Flux CMS)?

I have no clue about TAL-themes. As far as i got it, the integration is
still in development. All i have about this is the Wiki-Docs
(http://wiki.bitflux.org/Templates_XSLTAL) and some posts on
http://blog.bitflux.ch.

> I'm asking this since I'm considering learning XSLT while making a 
> theme for Flux CMS, but if it's too hard for me as a beginner I might 
> have to go with TAL instead.

I just startet out with some modifications. It depends, what Layout you
want to edit. I for example just played around with blog.xsl. Maybe you
can get some idea by looking at my actual template for the blog:
http://www.sequenz.ch/themes/sequenz/blog.xsl

For example you can make small-templates for everything you like:


<xsl:template name="geeks">
   <!-- all that geeky stuff -->
</xsl:template>

And you call it, whereever you want it to be shown, with:
<xsl:call-template name="geeks"/>

If you want that geek-Part to be available anywhere within the cms, just
define it in master.xsl, if its just something within the blog, define
it in blog.xsl.

I do also think that theme handling should become easier. But i am sure
it will :)

I hope that helped ;)
Alain
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