[opencms-dev] Writing HTML directly into a vfs file

[David Seikel]

For some strange reason, my email editor is giving me problems with this 
reply.  I suspect that there are too many > characters (which it uses 
for quoting).  My reply may come out strangely formatted.

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> ================
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <XMLTEMPLATE>
>     <TEMPLATE><![CDATA[<strong>dfhjdfhdfhfh</strong>]]></TEMPLATE>
>     <edittemplate><![CDATA[<STRONG>dfhjdfhdfhfh</STRONG>]]></edittemplate>
> </XMLTEMPLATE>
> ================

<snip>

> 2) I'd rather not touch the xml myself, because I don't understand what 
> this saving things twice thing is used to.

Going backwards, <edittemplate> is what is actually entered by the user,
either via the WYSIWYG editor or the source code editor.  <TEMPLATE> is
the result after OpenCMS parses the input (jTidy) and massages things,
mostly the links I think.  <TEMPLATE> is what is actually displayed when
you load the page into your browser.  In other words, <ELEMENT name="body">
returns the <TEMPLATE> just like in any other template file.
The next time someone edits the page, they are shown <edittemplate>.