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From: Jeff Turner <jefft@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [Status] Skins?
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:05:08PM -0500, Tony Collen wrote:
> Hi list-
> 
> after a small hiatus from messing with cocoon stuff, i'm getting angry at
> templating my pages in dreamweaver, so i'm re-evaluating forrest for a
> project at my new job.
> 
> i remember playing around with some skins a few months ago, but it seemed
> a little difficult to write a new "skin".. i was basically wondering on
> the status of skinning in forrest.  I have a very lightweight design that
> I want to bring into forrest and use.  most of it is CSS based, anyway.

If you're working off CVS, I've added a bare minimum 'template' skin
to copy.  Forrest skins in 0.3 make heavy use of <xsl:import> to pull
in and override a common base:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:import href="../../../common/xslt/html/document2html.xsl"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

You can then override specific templates as needed.

The main XSLT files are:

- document2html.xsl:  This defines the HTML for the body text.  Unless
  you want to restyle things like <note>'s, it's usually not worth
  overriding anything.

- site2xhtml.xsl:  Main, outermost stylesheet responsible for layout
  and overall look&feel.  This is the one you usually want to play
  with.


I think the cleanest real skin to copy is avalon-tigris.  You might be
able to get away with just tweaking the CSS.  If you're using 0.3, be
aware of this bug with avalon-tigris:

http://issues.cocoondev.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=FOR-29


--Jeff

> Regards,
> Tony
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