In general, it seems that the templating system used in TeamSite is based on a discrete data paradigm. By this I mean that DCTs are best at handling schemas that result in a tree. Any mixed content is largely treated as if it was HTML.
I have a situation where I definately don't want to have my nodes treated as if they were HTML. I want to provide my users with real semantic markup, similar, but not as extensive, to what you would find in
NITF.
For instance, I don't want to allow them to make a normal link with hrefs. Instead, if they want to create an internal link, I want them to only enter in the menuid of that page, I'll resolve that in what ever way is appropriate when I generate the content.
Or if they want to add a graphic, I don't want to generate a simple <img> tag, I want it to be marked up with all sorts of metadata that I will then transform into an img tag (or into something else when the user agent is a non-visual browser).
Now it seems to me that handling semantic prose (as opposed to HTML-esq styled prose) would be a common goal for many users. The only solution I can find in V5 is to use a custom Java callout. I have looked and there are NO java classes available that handle styled (ie WYSIWIG) semantic editing for an arbitrary schema. This means that I would have to create my own component, something I do not have the resources to accomplish.
What resources has Interwoven made available to make this task easier?
