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

[bart vandendriessche]

Ok, very nice to catch a glimpse of the roadmap,  can't wait to get my 
hands on that future release. Since categorization will be needed for 
our next project I guess I'll have to work with my own solution for the 
time being.

Best regards,
Bart Vandendriessche

Alexander Kandzior wrote:

>Content categorization is one feature of the Content Relationship Engine
>(CRE). The current plan is to implement this feature after the 6.0 release. 
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>Best Regards,
>Alex.
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>Alexander Kandzior
>Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
>http://www.alkacon.com
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>>From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
>>[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of bart 
>>vandendriessche
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:58 AM
>>To: The OpenCms mailing list
>>Subject: [opencms-dev] openCMS 6 beta 2 - Categorization of 
>>StructuredContent
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>>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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