[opencms-dev] Re: Meaning of XML in the Plain contents of a "Page" type resource

[Thomas Joseph Olaes]

D'oh!

I see the difference, it looks like only the <TEMPLATE /> tag has the
<LINK /> elements inside of it and reduced whitespace, the
<edittemplate /> tag has the HTML as it's typed verbatim in the source
editor.

-TJ

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:08:19 -0700, Thomas Joseph Olaes
<thomas.olaes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning, list!
> 
> Today I have a question regarding "Page" resources. Specifically I'm
> talking about the part of the "Page" resource that resides in the VFS
> "/system/bodies/...", like if I had a Page resource in the VFS path
> (root)/sites/site1/index.html, the part I'm talking about would reside
> in (root)/system/bodies/sites/site1/index.html, and that resource
> would be of type "Plain".
> 
> My question is this, since the structure of this file is:
> 
> <? xml version="1.0" encoding="..." ?>
> <XMLTEMPLATE>
>   <TEMPLATE><![CDATA[ ... (all the HTML of the pages looks like it's
> here, with link paths wrapped within <a
> href="]]><LINK><![CDATA[/tags/like/this.html]]></LINK><![CDATA[">tags
> like this</a>) ... ]]></TEMPLATE>
>   <edittemplate><![CDATA[ ... (all the HTML of the pages looks like
> it's here, with link paths wrapped within <a
> href="]]><LINK><![CDATA[/tags/like/this.html]]></LINK><![CDATA[">tags
> like this</a>) ... ]]></edittemplate>
> </XMLTEMPLATE>
> 
> What are the roles of the <TEMPLATE /> element and the <edittemplate
> /> element? I'm looking at one page and see very little difference
> between the two. The reason I'm concerned with this is because I'm
> writing a cron class that will process the contents of a page, but a
> "Page" apparently has two different data elements that I possibly need
> to concern myself with, so information regarding these two elements
> would help me in my project.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any time and assistance provided to this query.
> 
> -TJ
>