[daisy] Navigation tree improvements ideas

[Bruno Dumon]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 16:09 +0200, Steven Noels wrote:
> On 01 Sep 2006, at 13:26, Bruno Dumon wrote:
> >
> > That's it. Comments on the above are welcome, as well as other
> > navigation feature wishes in order to complete the picture.
> 
> Other features: I'm good at that. :)
> 
> We've been talking about being able to use the result of a query to  
> parametrize link node-type URL generation, similar to the regex  
> replacement stuff used in the Cocoon sitemap and elsewhere.
> 
> select x, y where ... leads to:
> 
> <node type="link" url="$contextPath/ext/blabla/$(x)?foo=$(y)"/>
> 
> Is that what you were trying to describe as:
> 
> > What I'm leaving out from this current discussion is the exact  
> > syntax to
> > be used to reference values from a query node. It should however have
> > the possibility to encode (format) values for use in the where  
> > clause of
> > a Daisy query (i.e. format as string, date, number, ...), or to
> > uri-encode them for use in link-href parameters. Possibly this  
> > could use
> > the syntax from the PropertyResolver class.

indeed, and it was also mentioned a bit earlier:

> [...], or nested link nodes whereby the href of the link
> can be customised by the values selected in the query.

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