From: Martin Hart <martin@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T21:35:41+09:00
Subject: Amrita Question - using a() with nested elements


Hello all,

Just downloaded Amrita and playing with it - looks really cool so far!

I have a couple of static (i.e. no dynamic data) web sites that share a 
common structure (framesets and the like) and I thought I'd have a go at 
specifying the structure using Amrita, and then provide variable content 
for the sites.  I am having some difficulty applying the information 
provided in the docs to a specific problem:

Given the following template:

<frameset id="frameSet" cols="THIS WILL BE REPLACED">
 <frame id="blankFrame" src="THIS WILL BE REPLACED">
 <frame id="dataFrame" src="THIS WILL BE REPLACED">
 <frame id="blankFrame" src="THIS WILL BE REPLACED">
</frameset>

I am having trouble seeing how I provide data for this template.

I originally started with:

data = {
 :frameSet => a(:cols => "*,1,*"),
 :blankFrame => a(:src => "blank.html"),
 :dataFrame => a(:src => "data.html"),
}

This doesn't work (the blankFrame and dataFrame items are not replaced) 
because amrita seems to be looking for children of :frameSet to find 
:blankFrame and :dataFrame.

Now I can see how I could do it, if I embedded some of the template into 
the data (e.g):

data = {
 :frameSet => { a(:cols => "*,1,*") { "<frame ... " }
 }
}

... but this seems to violate the intention of amrita (i.e. to separate 
the html from the application data).

Am I missing anything here or (more likely) am I using it wrong?  

Thanks for any help you can give

Martin


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