Re: Overriding work around

Benno Luthiger wrote:
> Dear Silva developers,
> 
> With silva/index_html Silva offers the opportunity to override the standard
> layout with a local layout. This is a nice feature and useful for some
> abvious website designs. The override mechanisme works fine if the container
> (e.g. Silva Folder or Publication) containing the override template is
> called. However, it fails if the container's default document 'index' is
> called explicitely.

How is this called 'explicitly'? Browse to it directly like 
foo/bar/index? Does it fail if you browse directly to a non-index document?

> And of course it fails in our situation where we
> implemented multilingual support by simply postfixing the language key to
> the document. Instead of displaying the content of 'mysite/index_DE' in the
> override layout, the content is rendered with the default layout.
> To overcome this problem I've modefied the Script 'index_html' slightly by
> checking the context.id and installed this modified version somewhere beyond
> the Silva Root:

[snip]

> Do you see a draw back with this work around?

I think first we'll need to find out what the root cause is of override 
not being called for index documents. If it is indeed not working for 
index documents but it does work for other documents, something quite 
peculiar looks to be going on that we need to investigate further.

Regards,

Martijn