Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-forrest-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 8792 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2004 03:59:15 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 03:59:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 82195 invoked by uid 500); 12 Feb 2004 03:58:56 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-xml-forrest-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 82052 invoked by uid 500); 12 Feb 2004 03:58:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact forrest-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 82033 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2004 03:58:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wkwyw.ensim.dedicated-servers.co.uk) (217.199.181.91) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 03:58:55 -0000 X-ClientAddr: 196.32.48.139 Received: from apache.org (max5-139.carib-link.net [196.32.48.139]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by wkwyw.ensim.dedicated-servers.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i1C42BM31214 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 04:02:14 GMT Message-ID: <402AF9A8.6090404@apache.org> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:57:28 -0400 From: Ross Gardler Organization: saafe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Sites built from sites References: <402A6674.4060706@apache.org> <0C3D51AC-5CD7-11D8-9DA1-000393448246@medata.com> <402ADE66.7010700@apache.org> <1076551601.402adfb1cccb6@secure.solidusdesign.com> In-Reply-To: <1076551601.402adfb1cccb6@secure.solidusdesign.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: 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 Dave Brondsema wrote: > Quoting Ross Gardler : > > >> >>Clay Leeds wrote: >> >>>On Feb 11, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >>> >>> >>>>So, I'm thinking that perhaps we should have sub-sites. In this >>>>instance each course would have its own site.xml (site_A.xml, >>>>site_B.xml etc.) then site.xml brings together then necessary sub-site >>>>files: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>I would think that Forrest's TAB system would suffice to accomplish this >>>type of task (the building of sub-sites), and would create one tab for >>>each sub-site. >> >>I already extended the tab system to have two layers of tabs, now I am >>outgrowing that. But the main thing is that I need to provide different >>courses for different institutions. I teach at three different places. >>Not all of them have the same courses, so I really need different sites. >> > > > That sounds really big. Do they all need to be integrated? I would suggest > making each course it's own site and have one master site that consists mainly > of external links to all the seperate course sites. Well, I'm not really telling the whole story. I run the sites dynamically and my ultimate objective is to build different sites for different students. So if a student is taking courses A, B and D they only see those courses. Of course I could do this by having separate sites as you suggest and just generate the "index" site for each individual student. In fact, I went that way about three months ago, but I recently reintegrated everything into one site. The reason being that I do alot of xincludes across courses and this proved to be really difficult as I had to xinclude from the live site. This made testing impossible unless online, since this is a third world country connectivity isn't as good as I'd grown used to in the UK :-) Perhaps I am tackling this in the wrong way? Ross