The general process for creating the navigation:
- build a sample XML file
- use xmlspy to generate prototype DTD
- massage the DTD to reflect the navigation data
- populate the navigation with Merlot-1.0.1 (java based gui xml editor)
- create test xsl file for viewing the navigation.xml file in MSIE5 (you may need to remove the call to the DTD inserted by Merlot)
- verify that the page renders when using MSXML on the server side (boilerplate)
- review the XML Parser for tips regarding tags and attributes (a node)
- create script for determining:
- the name of the script currently being called
- the role of script in the site (primary/secondary/tertiary/quaterary/NA)
- the types of navigation based on status of the item being displayed: active; child active; not active (perhaps also not display?)
- cleanup then optimize the script.
posted by j 2/26/2001 11:58:00 AM