.page xml -- page/page_display_properties/pagetype node - question

wickersty

Hello all,

I am trying to breakdown how a .page file is connected to the page type xsl in order to render that .page file as an html file on production.

I can see the components appear in the .page file (along with their xsl's embedded within), but I'm having trouble understanding how the .page xml file knows which page type xsl file to use on the page level. I can see no tag in the .page xml file that says "this is the page type this .page file is using"

Furthermore, in the following node of a .page file (page/page_display_properties/pagetype node) there are two nodes: and . These two nodes contain what seem to be a string of characters separated by hyphens and I have no idea what this represents. Can someone shed light on this? Below is an example of this node:

    <PageType>
      <Id>-ls-pt-lo-def-</Id>
      <Layout>-ls-pt-lo-def-</Layout>
    </PageType>

I would greatly appreciate any advice or explanation on the above.

Jeff

Jcse

Hello all, I am trying to breakdown how a .page file is connected to the page type xsl in order to render that .page file as an html file on production. I can see the components appear in the .page file (along with their xsl's embedded within), but I'm having trouble understanding how the .page xml file knows which page type xsl file to use on the page level. I can see no tag in the .page xml file that says "this is the page type this .page file is using" Furthermore, in the following node of a .page file (page/page_display_properties/pagetype node) there are two nodes: and . These two nodes contain what seem to be a string of characters separated by hyphens and I have no idea what this represents. Can someone shed light on this? Below is an example of this node: -ls-pt-lo-def- -ls-pt-lo-def- I would greatly appreciate any advice or explanation on the above. Jeff

HI

This is just my understanding, if you see the source of default.site there is a same element "PageType" having same child elements "Id" and "Layout".The values of these
elements are the values that you select at UI while creating an Page.

[HTML]
html401-transitional
div-layout
[/HTML]

Now,every page has same element as mentioned by you like

[HTML]
-ls-pt-lo-def-
-ls-pt-lo-def-
[/HTML]

What i think default.site is just like site configuration file,it has common infomation that need to be acceseds by every page of that site like
resources etc.So to facilitate the access of PageType ,every page has this same ID and Layout.Because ultimately it fetch its value from default.site

One point can be possible,as a page may have different layout and Id (not sure) that's why they have given this element in every page.

As far as XSL question is concern i am trying to figure out,if got something let you know.

HTH