How to publish bulk of HTML pages using single XSL

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darsat_8

Hi all…
i have very little knowledge abt xsl and xmlschema
my question is that how to publish bulk of HTML pages using single XSL file when we submit web form at the time content creation..
anyone know guide me how to solve this problem….
thanks in advance…

kvc

Best recommendation in that case is to use only a simple Web Form and Freemarker instead of XSL.

A simple Web Form would be an XSD for a generic article, an XSD for example that just captures a title, summary, and body element, where the title is a simple textbox, the summary a simple textfield, and the body a WYWISYG rich-text field.  Here's an example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
      xmlns:trn="http://www.alfresco.org"
           targetNamespace="http://www.alfresco.org"
           elementFormDefault="qualified">
  <xs:element name="generic_article">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="title" type="xs:normalizedString"/>
        <xs:element name="summary" type="xs:string">

          <!– Make textarea just a plain text container with annotation –>
          <xs:annotation>
            <xs:appinfo>
              <alf:appearance>minimal</alf:appearance>
            </xs:appinfo>
          </xs:annotation>

        </xs:element>

        <xs:element name="body" type="xs:string">

          <!– Make textarea include expanding list of RTF options, with expanding size and table controls –>
          <xs:annotation>
            <xs:appinfo>
              <alf:appearance>custom</alf:appearance>
            </xs:appinfo>
          </xs:annotation>

        </xs:element>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>
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The annotation values are found in your main web-client-config-wcm.xml file.  The "custom" textarea option, for example, is listed in this config file with the following display options (which you can change or add your own instance of):

           <widget xforms-type="xf:textarea"
                   appearance="custom"
                   javascript-class-name="alfresco.xforms.RichTextEditor">
             <param name="theme_advanced_buttons1">bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,separator,fontselect,fontsizeselect</param>
             <param name="theme_advanced_buttons2">link,unlink,image,separator,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,separator,bullist,numlist,separator,undo,redo,separator,forecolor,backcolor</param>
             <param name="height">600</param>
             <param name="mode">exact</param>
             <param name="force_p_newlines">true</param>
             <param name="apply_source_formatting">true</param>
             <param name="plugins">table</param>
             <param name="theme_advanced_buttons3">tablecontrols</param>
           </widget>
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Now, once you have your XML, your best bet is to just use Freemarker.  With Freemarker, you can take any existing HTML page, add your Freemarker decorator at the beginning of your file, strip out your text content and replace with appropriate Freemarker variable to correspond to your XML element nodes, save with an *.ftl extension, and viola - you can associate it with your Web Form and start generating web pages.   It is the simplest path for taking any web page and templatizing it quickly.

An example of what you'd want to make any HTML (or JSP, etc.) page look like when you save as a *.ftl file:

<#ftl ns_prefixes={"D", "http://www.alfresco.org"}>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan"
      xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions"
      xmlns:trn="http://www.alfresco.org"
      xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org">
  <head>
    <title>${generic_article.title}</title>
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Hope that helps.  The neat thing here is that it should be relatively quick to get your existing web pages into a template form, with your content in simple limited XML format, which you can always extend and layer in additional richness to later.

Take a spin.  Let us know how you get on.


Kevin