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#13 2005-11-10 17:41:46

aesop1

Archived Plugin Author

Registered: 2004-09-19

Posts: 142

Re: What is the point of "article" and "article_custom?"

Um, sure, but I doubt you will get the TXP developers to bite on that one. First of all there probably wouldn’t be much end-user benefit (it’s probably just as verbose). The second reason is that there is already a huge installation of users using article_custom. But I suppose they could slowly phase out article_custom and add the article_custom functionality to the article tag — if they wanted to do that.

I think the real issue has been confusion about the article_custom tag and what it is for. Improved documentation should make it easier to comprehend.

#14 2005-11-10 21:09:20

zem

Developer Emeritus

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-04-08

Posts: 2,579

Re: What is the point of "article" and "article_custom?"

I understand what the differences between article and article_custom are but what I don’t understand is why the need for 2 seperate tags. Wouldn’t it be simpler to combine the two tags into one and have another attribute like context=”1” to make it context-sensitive or not?

There’s this thing called backwards compatibility, see.

Hey, that’s a great idea. We could generalize the principle, and then we’d only have to document one tag!

<txp:tag do="article" />
<txp:tag do="article_custom" />
<txp:tag do="category" />
<txp:tag do="page_title" />
..etc.

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Alex

#15 2005-11-27 18:50:17

aesop1

Archived Plugin Author

Registered: 2004-09-19

Posts: 142

Re: What is the point of "article" and "article_custom?"

LOL. I can’t wait to see what the conditional tags would look like, Alex. ;)