Re: www.gnome.org: Adding 2nd-level menus

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 14:55 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> I started trying to make a version of gnomweb-wml that has the new
> structure and content that was agreed during the development of the
> Plone system.
> 
> But I noticed that the existing www.gnome.org doesn't have any
> second-level menus, such as you see here on the right:
> http://tinyurl.com/5do472
> 
> I don't need all the styling right now, but I do need a way to put the
> same menu on a page and all its children. Can anybody recommend a clean
> way to do this?
> 
> I could have separate SSI include files for each second-level menu, but
> I'd end up then hard-coding the same HTML markup (though not the CSS),
> making it difficult to change them all if we later chose to structure
> them differently.
> 
> Or I could use the old developer.gnome.org tree.in system, though it
> seems quite hacky. It needs the same small snippet to be in each
> Makefile.am file, calling a script to process the tree.in file to put
> result in  the generated .html file. 

Does nobody have an idea? At the moment I'm leaning towards just using
that old tree.in system.

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