[opencms-dev] openCMS 6 beta 2 - Categorization of StructuredContent

[Alexander Kandzior]

Content categorization is one feature of the Content Relationship Engine
(CRE). The current plan is to implement this feature after the 6.0 release. 

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com

 

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> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of bart 
> vandendriessche
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:58 AM
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> Subject: [opencms-dev] openCMS 6 beta 2 - Categorization of 
> StructuredContent
> 
> After just finishing a project in openCMS 5.0.1 and now 
> exploring openCMS 6 beta 2, I am very pleasantly surprised to 
> find the implementation of Structured Content through the use 
> of XML Schema. I implemented something similar for our 
> customer in openCMS 5.0.1 and one of the issues that really 
> hasn't been properly dealt with, and still is present in 
> openCMS 6 is the issue of categorization. This is a problem 
> inherent to storing objects in a single file as opposed to a 
> database because in doing so, we lose alot of the 
> relationships a relational database has to offer. To give an example:
> Imagine the Article StructuredContent type thats included in 
> the templateone demo needs to be placed in a certain 
> category, let's say we have 2 categories, hardware and 
> software. Sure we could modify the XML Schema to include a 
> choice element that gives us the ability to choose between 
> these two categories, but what happens when the name of one 
> of these categories changes, a category is added or  a 
> category is removed ? We would have to change our XML Schema 
> to reflect the changes, which could possibly break all the 
> StructuredContent that was previously validated by this XSD.
> A better solution in my opinion would be to define categories 
> themselves by a XSD (one XSD per type of category, ie: 
> articlecategory.xsd and newscategory.xsd), and then create a 
> kind of widget that would show up a list of these categories 
> while editing the original StructuredContent.
> These are just initial thoughts on the subject, please discuss :)
> 
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