Re: Some newbie questions

If you like to satisfy your curiosity I suggest that you browser the lecture homepage [1], download the SmallWiki 2 image [2] and browse the presentation slides [3]. Note that big and important parts, like the security and persistence, are not yet fished! [1] http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/AdvancedLabs/index.html [2] http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Teaching/AdvancedLabs/swimages/sw2.zip [3] http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smallwiki/slides/intro.pdf

I'm currently working on an improved model of the layout engine. The idea would be that a wiki is composed from different primitive Seaside components, e.g. to display the menu, the login status, the current path and the actual contents. In SmallWiki 1 we had the templates that were composed statically, in SmallWiki 2 I want to use a meta-document to describe the look of a page: *+Heading+* | *+Menu+* | *+Path+* | *+Search+* | *+Contents+* Powered by *SmallWiki* Heading, Menu, Path and Search are all links to primitive Seaside components, the + means that they will be embedded and not linked into the resulting page. Contents is the embedded document. So my rendering visitor will walk over this meta-document and build the whole web-page. When reaching the 'contents' it will jump from the meta-level to the document level of the page currently displayed. Does this all make sense? Any ideas where to put that meta-document information? I am currently not quite sure where to store it ...