Re: rendering sub-entries

On 03/30/05 00:35, will guaraldi wrote:
> Steven mentioned how the comments plugin directly accesses the blosxom 
> renderer's outputTemplate method to handle what I'm going to refer to as a 
> "sub-entry".
> 
> For every story there are zero-to-many comments where each comment is a 
> "sub-entry" and needs to be rendered with its own template.  But we 
> currently have no ability to handle "sub-entries".
> 
> What other things could be done with sub-entries?  Could we do entry 
> revisions with sub-entries?  Would that be interesting?  Perhaps some 
> metadata could be rendered as a sub-entry?
> 
> Each entry has a list of entries of its own.
> 
> When someone looks at a URI for an index ( /blog/2005, /blog/somecategory, 
> /blog, ...), then they see a list of the entries--but we don't render any 
> of the sub-entries.
> 
> When someone looks at a URI for a specific entry, then they see the entry 
> with all of its sub-entries rendered.
> 
> To render the sub-entries for an entry, we'd render the hierarchy 
> depth-first.  Sub-entries don't have to be related at all.  They'd get 
> naturally ordered because the plugins populating the sub-entry list 
> would be run one after another.  The order of the sub-entry groups would 
> be decided by the order the plugins are loaded.  We could end up with 
> something like this:
> 
>    story entry
>      |- metadata sub-entry
>      |
>      |- trackback sub-entry
>      |- trackback sub-entry
>      |- trackback sub-entry
>      |
>      |- comment sub-entry
>      |- comment sub-entry
>      |- comment sub-entry
>      |  |- comment sub-entry
>      |
>      |- comment form sub-entry
> 
> That might be kind of interesting since it'd grab comments, trackbacks, 
> and any other "sub-entry" kinds of things.  We could even beef up the 
> comments plugin to see a hierarchy of comments which might be interesting.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 
> /will
> 

I think that would be a powerfull enchancement.

For example I was thinking about how I could attach images/fotos to an
entry. With a system like the one you are proposing in place that would
be piece-of-cake to implement :-)





-------------------------------------------------------
SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click