Return-Path: 
 <forrest-dev-return-8073-apmail-xml-forrest-dev-archive=xml.apache.org@xml.apache.org>
Delivered-To: apmail-xml-forrest-dev-archive@www.apache.org
Received: (qmail 17100 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2003 20:57:25 -0000
Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12)
  by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Nov 2003 20:57:25 -0000
Received: (qmail 78416 invoked by uid 500); 6 Nov 2003 20:57:14 -0000
Delivered-To: apmail-xml-forrest-dev-archive@xml.apache.org
Received: (qmail 78187 invoked by uid 500); 6 Nov 2003 20:57:12 -0000
Mailing-List: contact forrest-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
list-help: <mailto:forrest-dev-help@xml.apache.org>
list-unsubscribe: <mailto:forrest-dev-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org>
list-post: <mailto:forrest-dev@xml.apache.org>
Reply-To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org
Delivered-To: mailing list forrest-dev@xml.apache.org
Received: (qmail 78176 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2003 20:57:12 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO e1.ny.us.ibm.com) (32.97.182.101)
  by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Nov 2003 20:57:12 -0000
Received: from northrelay04.pok.ibm.com (northrelay04.pok.ibm.com
 [9.56.224.206])
	by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/NS PXFA) with ESMTP id hA6KvHf8478342
	for <forrest-dev@xml.apache.org>; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:57:17 -0500
Received: from d25ml07.torolab.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216])
	by northrelay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.9/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id hA6KvFij024952
	for <forrest-dev@xml.apache.org>; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:57:15 -0500
Subject: using the label from site.xml in links
To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org
X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0.2CF1 June 9, 2003
Message-ID: 
 <OF30CABEAF.9FEDB11E-ON85256DD6.0070EBE9-85256DD6.007313A1@ca.ibm.com>
From: Richard Cao <richcao@ca.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:56:58 -0500
X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D25ML07/25/M/IBM(Release 6.0.2CF1|June 9,
 2003) at
 11/06/2003 15:57:14
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N
X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N





Hello,

I'm currently trying to convert the Xalan site
(http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html) from stylebook to forrest, but
am running into some problems. (I'm a first time forrest user, so please
bear with me)

There currently is a resource linking mechanism, in which we have a
resource.xml file which contains something like:

<resources>
    ...
  <resource id="xslt4j"
            title="XalanJ Homepage"
            location="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j"/>
</resources>

In the documents, if we have  <resource-ref idref="xml4j"/>, that will get
converted to <a href="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j">Xalan J Homepage</a>

I'm trying to find a way to do this in forrest, but the best I've come up
with is using indirect linking.

In site.xml
<xml4j label="XalanJ Homepage" href="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j"/>

and in the documents, using <link href="site:xml4j">XalanJ Homepage</link>.
I've read that ext: and external-refs do the same thing without the link
appearing in the menu, but haven't tried it out. But regardless, using the
above is close, but I'd rather have the link names in a centralized
location. Is there some way to use the label attribute from site.xml to
specify the link name? Or is there some other feature of forrest which I am
not aware of?


Thanks in advance for the help,

Richard Cao
XSLT Development, Toronto IBM Lab
(905) 413-2454 T/L 969-2454
richcao@ca.ibm.com