[REBOL] Re: Looking For Help
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 29-Jan-2003 16:02
Joel Neely wrote:
>Hi, Petr,
>
>Interesting comments, as usual!
>
>How about a simple first step (see below)?
>
Well, I already did some first step, but it simply hardwires values into
website source :-)
We use:
<!--Snowhill_name_start-->something here ...<!--end-->
we simply look for certain section, replace data, begin to head of
document to perform another section look-up .... now to your comments ....
>Using the HTML-TEMPLATE from my previous reply, one could use something
>like the following quick kludge:
>
>1) create three template html files:
>
> a) one for a "typical row"
> b) one for the entire table "wrapper"
> c) one for the entire page
>
yes - that is what I meant by component/modules or modules/sub-modules
(plug-ins). The module would be still called e.g. "table" and your
typical row
etc. values would be part of module config dialect, e.g.
<!--[
module: "abc"
version: 1.0.2
config: [
table-style typical-row
repeat 2 rows ; different colors for first and second row,
repeat those pairs
times in cgi num-rows ; take number of rows from cgi env.
variable ....
]
]-->
>2) create a table-maker wrapper for HTML-TEMPLATE that would take the
> first two templates and a data source as arguments, and would:
>
> a) initialize a content accumulator string to empty,
> b) iterate through the data source, filling in the "typical row"
> template for each chunk of source data (e.g. row of database)
> with appropriate pre-processing, and append the result of each
> iteration to the content accumulator,
> c) upon completion, fill in the table "wrapper" template with the
> content accumulator's value.
>
hey, that's cute aproach! I will add it to list of the things to think
about :-) There is of course many ways of how to use templates, what
would have designer to do, how/where he/she would put template
instructions into html source, how to easily maintain it on the server's
side etc etc.
>3) use the result of step (2) as a single value for the name/value pairs
> to fill in the entire page template.
>
>Of course, step (2) could be repeated as often as needed for multiple
>tables within a single page, saving each table image under a different
>name in the page's name/value block.
>
>With all that said...
>
>The above approach strikes me as a bit like "assembly language" where
>the programmer has to tie everything together and follow all of the
>appropriate conventions. It would be feasible IMHO either:
>
>1) to extend the template notation to allow a page layout expert to
> create a single page meta-template that would use additional
> markup to show embedded structure, then a pre-process to break
> that meta-template up into the collection of individual templates
> used as above, or
>
>2) build up the structure in code to take the meta-template and use
> HTML-TEMPLATE as a low-level block to assemble an entire page at
> a time, or
>
>3) to stay with the above approach, given that one could define a
> "flavor" of table/row combination once and re-use that same piece
> of design across multiple pages.
>
Now I am lost with 1) and 2), but never mind :-)
thanks for input,
-pekr-
