[eml-dev] [Bug 3855] - Create an EML Utilities module

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3855





------- Comment #1 from mob at icess.ucsb.edu  2009-03-03 12:15 -------
adding from Mike's email 2009-03-03, per use of /styles/ by metacat, and
various skins.
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I had to make a few changes to the way the sbclter skin works, mostly because
the style/shared/eml-2.0.0/eml.xsl file tries to import files from the skins
directories.  This worked when we used token replacement, but doesn't work with
variables.
I will need to make similar changes to the pisco skin to make that work, so
Chris, can you take a look at what I've done for sbclter and let me know if
it's okay to make the same changes to pisco?

What I've done:

-- Created a style/shared/eml-2.1.0 directory that is a copy of the eml-2.0.0
directory (needs to be updated for 2.1.0)
-- Created style/skins/sbclter/templates/xsl/sbclter-eml-2.0.0.xsl and
sbclter-eml-2.1.0.xsl which do local includes
   and header template calls and import the shared eml.xsl files.
-- Pointed /style/skins/sbclter/sbclter.xml to the appropriate
sbclter-eml-2.X.X.xsl file

What I propose for the new EML-UTIL module that we will create post release:

-- Rename the /style/shared directory to /style/common-css-layout
-- move the /style/common-css-layout code into the EML-UTIL module in svn (tag
2.0.0 code with old tags)
-- check out the common-css-layout from EML-UTIL at metacat build time (like we
do now for common)
-- Rename the /style/common directory in EML-UTIL to /style/common-table-layout
-- If needed, extract any truly shared generic code from /style/common-X-layout
directories into a shared directory.

Please let me know what you think.
Mike