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

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Wed Mar 14 21:18:10 GMT 2012


Jonathan,

See attached (should be in <xerte install folder>/scripts)

Interestingly, it complains about xerte.xwd, and xerte.xwd works..... So 
I looked in the Engine code to try to figure out why... xerteModel is an 
exception. It is handled seperately in the engine. It load the model 
given as a parameter....

So, now it gives an error, and it will NOT be added to the template. My 
proposal would be to rename it to xerteModel.xwd/xerteModel.rlm. That is 
a safer change than changing the xml node name (as that will break 
existing rlo's).

I have NOT done that. The xwdBuilder.php is also committed to svn.

Regards,

Tom

Op 14-3-2012 11:32, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> Yes, that should do it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 14 March 2012 10:24, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl 
> <mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
>
>     I'll have a look. The check seems simple enough:
>
>      If processing connectorMenu.xwd/connectorMenu.rlm, make sure the
>     node is called connectorMenu
>
>     Correct?
>
>     Tom
>
>     Citeren Kemp Johnathan <johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com
>     <mailto:johnathan.kemp at ntlworld.com>>:
>
>         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
>         <mailto: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
>             <mailto: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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