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

[Matthias Schmidt]

Good question. Does anyone know? DAvid?

M Butcher wrote:
> So if I were to change the contents of the XML file in a Java class,
> would changing the CDATA in <edittemplate> and saving be sufficient, or
> would I need to call something to build the contents of TEMPLATE?
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:28, David Seikel wrote:
> 
>>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>.