[opencms-dev] long support for xmlpage type ?

[Georgi Naplatanov]

Hi Tobias,

thanks for the answer.

ADE is definitely a very good feature for me, but sometimes adoption of 
new and good features may be impeded by non technical reasons :)

Best regards
Georgi

On 01/22/2013 04:42 PM, Tobias Herrmann wrote:
> Hi Georgi, hi Paul,
>
> we are currently not planing to remove the xmlpage feature. Definitely
> not with the next major version.
> The same goes for the structured xmlcontent. This feature is still the
> core of our current templates, the containerpages being xmlcontents
> themselves.
>
> If you have issues with the new editor, you can either wait for the
> upcoming release of OpenCms 8.5.1 which will resolve a few issues with
> the editor still present in version 8.5.0, or you can switch to the old
> editor that is still available in the current version.
>
> Feature wise we will keep our focus on improving templates using the
> containerpages. We think they are very flexible and allow a very precise
> control of layout and content placement. You should really take a closer
> look at the concept before disregarding it all together.
>
>
> Greetings, Tobias
>
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> Am 22.01.2013 13:54, schrieb Paul-Inge Flakstad:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm curious about this as well (or at least something similiar).
>>
>> We like OpenCms. We like xmlcontent aka "structured content". We don't
>> use containerpages, and we can live just fine without direct edit.
>>
>> After testing an upgrade from 7.5.2 to 8.5 I concluded it's not an
>> option - 8.5 can't handle our xmlcontent. (Errors occur during
>> editing, preventing the editor to save changes. I'm not sure what the
>> problem is; might be the new Acacia editor, might be OpenCms itself,
>> might be some kind of incompatibility in our modules.)
>>
>> The thing that really worries me is that all updates now hint at an
>> out-phasing of xmlcontent in favor of containerpages. "Everything" now
>> seems to be based around containerpages.
>>
>> So if we want to base our sites on xmlcontent, just like we did
>> pre-containerpage, will that work for us in the future?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
>> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Georgi Naplatanov
>> Sent: 22. januar 2013 13:08
>> To: The OpenCms mailing list
>> Subject: [opencms-dev] long support for xmlpage type ?
>>
>> Dear OpenCms developers at Alkacon,
>>
>> How long are you going to support xmlpage type ?
>>
>> I'm asking this question, because I wonder what to do with some sites
>> what use v. 6/7 style templates. Some customers pay me for updating
>> their site content and they don't care whether their site/template is
>> ADE enabled or not.
>>
>> Please advice me what to do for a long period of time - next 5, 10, 15
>> years.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Georgi
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