[Seaside] Re: pier help

[laurent laffont]

Thank you Yanni.

I've added these infos to the Pier-Help package and others I've found...

Cheers,

Laurent Laffont

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On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Yanni Chiu <yanni at rogers.com> wrote:

> laurent laffont wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to understand how Pier works, especially rendering content.
>>
>
> Here's the rough understanding that I have.
>
> - the content is held in instances of PRStructure subclasses
> - PRPage is the most important subclass, with regard to wiki content
> - the wiki syntax that a user submits, is parsed into real objects (i.e. a
> parse tree), and these parse tree objects are from the PRDocumentItem
> hierarchy
> - each PRPage holds the parse tree for a page of content
> - if you inspect/explore the class variable named "instances" of the
> PRKernel class, you will see the content/pages/parse-trees
>
> - to display content, the parse tree is traversed by an appropriate
> subclass of PRVisitor
> - in the case of displaying content via Seaside, the important class to
> look at is PRViewRenderer. This visitor traverses the page/document parse
> tree, and during the traversal, invokes Seaside rendering code which results
> in the appropriate HTML being emitted.
>
> Hope that helps to get you started.
>
> --
> Yanni
>
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