Re: Photo Album
Michael Wechner <[email protected]>
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Alex McLintock wrote: > At 22:22 02/09/02, you wrote: > >> The new book "Cocoon: Building XML Applications" written by Matthew >> Langham >> and Carsten Ziegeler might be interesting for you. While it does not deal >> with Wyona the authors explain an image gallery example. > > > I have the book. It isn't so much the implementing in Cocoon (which I > can do in a crude way) but how I would do this in Wyona that I was > asking about. > > So far the book is full of useful information... which I wish I had when > I was learning Cocoon. But since I have built several (small) cocoon > sites now the book isn't so useful for me any more. > > Lets look at the examples for instance. I don't just want to learn how > to do any old photo album. I want to learn the best way to do a photo > album. I did one in Cocoon months ago.... > http://www.owal.co.uk/2002/portfolio/authors/localhost_8080/cocoon/author/welcome.html > > > It is not dynamic... there are no thumbnails.... The book did show me > how to do a page of thumbnails which I didn't know before. > > I have low res images used for the web, and high res images used for the > printable PDF. The main problem I have with the Langham/Ziegler photo > album is that it doesn't seem to associate any extra information with > the photo. All we have is the file name - which isn't really such a good > idea. I want to learn about the proper way to associate extra XML based > information with the photo such as where it was taken, who is in it, and > so on. That is exactly what the Wyona File Uploader does, associate meta (extra) information with the multimedia object (image, video, audio) and refer it from another content item via XPointer for instance. But Christian knows more about the details ... Michael > > More later.... > > Alex > > > > > > Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. > Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ > Open Source Software Companies please register here > http://www.OWAL.co.uk/oss_support/ > > > _______________________________________________ > WyonaCMS-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wyona.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wyonacms-users -- OSCOM - Open Source Content Management Conference September 25th - 27th 2002, Berkeley, California http://www.oscom.org/conferences/berkeley2002/