A Xamarin solution containing various code for Dynamicweb CMS system.
How about you? Would you like also to contribute to this repository? Lets build some usefull extensions for Dynamicweb! TagExtensions which makes life nicer for us coding CMS using Dynamicweb. I ask you to contact me on twitter: @netsi1964
We need to share code for Dynamicweb. As I have just begun coding backend code using Xamarin Studio (on Mac!) it has opened doors and I have only just begun! No man is an island, so I would love others to share their code and contribute here. I would love to have a DLL containing some usefull stuff, like TagExtensions.
I write this version as a Solution which can also be opened in Visual Studio. I try to seperate the code in different classes and I try to make my classes as generic as possible. For instance I write:
- A console project, for testing offline functions
- A class containing functionality and serving as a "util" or "Base" class. For instance my Tag Extensions use it when doing their job, they only serve as proxies. Functionality is not put into the Tag Extensions, as I want the function of them to be useful for Razor templates also.
- Tag Extensions live in their own namespace
- Backend created items. A sandbox where I want to put basic example of how to create items using backend code.
So You are free to use it!
This class contains the raw functions like TimeAgo() which can be used in your Dynamicweb Templates if they use Razor based templates.
Dynamicweb CMS lets you code your own "tag extensions". They allow you to manipulate output from tags in general, in same way as jQuery does using method chaining. Look at this example:
<!--@News:Date-->
That tag will return the date of a news item. It could be say: 2014/06/01. If you then extend the output as this:
<!--@News:Date.TimeAgo()-->
You will take the value (date) of the news date and convert it into a "relative date" like this:
5 months ago.
Another thing with tagExtensions is that you can choose to ignore the value of the current tag value, giving the tagExtension a "life of its own". It can for instance be used to pull out a relative time without actually having a tag with a date like this:
<!--@News:Date.TimeAgo("2014/06/01")-->
This tagextension lets you do a server side request and insert the elements found using the given xpath [default:"//body"]. For example:
<!--@News:Date.Request("http://www.dr.dk", "")-->
Result will be HTML from <body> of dr.dk
Here I put code which are on a "sandbox" state - for instance "request (string Url, string xPathSearch)" which will pull content from any given Url, run a XPath on the requested HTML using specified xPathSearch (if you have ever used XSLT, you will know XPath). and return the resulting HTML.
This is a way to insert XML output from a datalist publication. You will need to create a datalist and add a publication. You do not need to assign an XSLT but normally you would transform into the required format.
<!--@News:Date.getDatalistAsXML(1)-->
This is a way to insert a JSON version of XML output from a datalist publication. You will need to create a datalist and add a publication. You do not need to assign an XSLT but normally you would transform into the required format.
<!--@News:Date.getDatalistAsJSON(1)-->
I found a need to be able to transform two strings: An XML and an XSLT, so that method is also in the Experimental class. It is not exposed as a tagExtension, however it can be used in Razor like this:
@transform("<xml..>", "<xslt...>")