On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Ines Robbers wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Can someone tell me why I have to use a book-menu for other tabs? Why
> not a site.xml?
> Is it correct that when I have a tab "HowTo" that I stick its content
> into a folder "howto" inside xdocs?
Roughly correct. The tabs.xml file defines which tab belongs to which
directory.
> Why can it not be on the same level as the "Home" tab?
> Arent't both tabs sort a different versions of the same thing, sort of
> equal in hierarchy?
> Maybe I'm getting something wrong...
Nope, it's a common feature request, to 'decouple' the tab selection from
the physical directories.
> Is there a way to define all menus of all other tabs in xdocs/site.xml?
How do you propose it work? Currently we've had suggestions:
- All top-level site.xml elements form tabs (Nicola)
- Add an inheritable @tab='...' attribute.
- Simply add a <tab label="..."> element.
The logic for deciding which tab is 'on' is all in tab2menu.xsl. At
worst, you could hack the XSLT to switch tab X on when page {a,b,c,d}.xml
is being displayed, tab Y when {e,f,g,h}.xml displayed, and so on.
--Jeff
> Many thanks for insight!!
>
> Ines
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