[Xerte-dev] Re: Process of building the template.xwd file from the individual page xwd files.

[Kemp Johnathan]

Hello Tom,

Your process for building the template.xwd file worked well and the error
flagging helped to identify a number of minor issues in a few of the xwd
files that would have affected their performance.

There is one possible issue that I found that the error trapping did not
detect, and it caused me a lot of frustration and lost time, followed by a
brief period of pain when I kicked myself once I had discovered the cause
of the problem :-)

I built the template.xwd file and then tested my new connector pages in
XOT. All seven pages worked in Xerte, but now four of the pages failed to
display anything other than the page title in XOT. I took the files back to
a pageTemplates project and the same four failed to display there as well.
They would not even output debug messages.

The cause of the problem?

In Xerte the link between the xwd file and the rlm file is made based on
the file name, the link between the data created by the xwd form and the
page model loaded by the rlm file is made by the node name in the xml data.
So in Xerte the following will work

connectorMenu.xwd with a node cMenu
connectorMenu.rlm referencing pageIcon.templateData.cMenu[0]

however this will fail in pageTemplates and XOT as all the xwd files are
gathered together in one template.xwd file, so the link to the relevant
model file is made with the node name. The entry in template.xwd for the
connectorMenu uses cMenu as the node name so XOT goes looking for cMenu.rlm
and since it does not exist the page fails to work.

This may be obvious to someone used to the XOT way of doing things, but it
is far less obvious if you develop in Xerte. For anyone making the mistake
I made it can be difficult to identify the problem. So if there is any
possibility of building a check for this into your checking routines it
might be worth doing.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 13 March 2012 11:18, Kemp Johnathan <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Thanks Tom,
>
> I have got that working.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 12 March 2012 19:52, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
>
>>  Jonathan,
>>
>> I'll have a look at the non-scrolling window.
>>
>> In the meantime:
>>
>> 1. Depending on your OS, start a cmd as administrator (Vista +) or a
>> normal cmd
>> 2. go to the Xerte folder
>> 3. You can use the following command (this is what xerte calls):
>>   php\php.exe scripts\rebuildtemplate.php "path to xwd folder" >
>> convert.log
>>
>> Replace "path to xwd folder"with the folder name where your xwds reside.
>>
>> The convert.log file will contain the feedback, and you can check that
>> file with a text editor.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Op 12-3-2012 11:48, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
>>
>> I guess this is a question for Tom, unless anyone else has taken over the
>> work on this.
>>
>>  When I last tested the php file that builds the template.xwd file it
>> generated an output report based on all the xwd files in the folder it was
>> processing. This report was output into a non-scrollable window and the
>> text output exceeded the display space available. As a result any details
>> of errors that took place once the text had gone beyond the display area of
>> the window was unavailable.
>>
>>  I will have a new set of xwds ready by the end of this week. Is there
>> any possibility of the php file being modified so that I can process all of
>> the files in one batch to verify that they will generate a valid
>> template.xwd file?
>>
>>  Kind regards
>>
>>  Johnathan
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