k.rudnik at gmail
Oct 1, 2009, 5:12 AM
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Re: need advice about two OC's that share utility template
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Paul Orrock <paulo[at]digitalcraftsmen.net> wrote:
> OCs have the concept of inheritance so an OC can include the templates of
> another OC. We have a utility OC that is included into our HTML and XML OCs
> in order to do validation and encoding tasks common to both. This is exactly
> what the "template includes" was designed for.
So I was wrong when thinking about OC only as a pipe that output goes through.
OK than.
thanks very much
Krzysztof
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> regards,
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> Paul
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> Krzysztof Rudnik wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I've defined 2 OC's: Web and Category_Story_List (CSL OC) .
>> My Cover stories go through both of them.
>> In Web OC regular html pages are generated.
>> In CSL OC a php code is generated (list of links to last stories in a
>> category).
>> This code is later included in various pages on the server side.
>> Utility template /util/story_list.mc (defined as Web OC utility
>> template) is used in both OC's so I had to select Web OC in Template
>> Includes section in the definition of CSL OC.
>> There are two /cover.mc templates - one for each OC.
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>> The problem is that whenever I define a new (Web OC) /xxx/cover.mc in
>> a subcategory I have to clone CSL OC version of cover.mc in this
>> subcategory as well.
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>> It is hard to remember about this dependency and I feel that there is
>> something wrong with the whole idea.
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>> Should I define separate OC (CommonUtilities OC) to "hold" common
>> utility templates (like story_list.mc) and include these templates in
>> other OCS's (-- I feel I should't)
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>> What is the clever way to get the result I need.
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>> thanks in advance
>>
>> Krzysztof
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