[sakai2-tcc] Filtering Content served from CHS

[Nate Angell]

At the risk of being predictable, I'll point out that Drupal has a
fairly well-thought-out system for output filtering that might serve
as a useful model. This is probably the best intro to the strategy:
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal-input-formats-and-filters

Let me know if anyone would like more detailed info and/or access to
the admin level of a Drupal sandbox.

- Nate

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <aaronz at vt.edu> wrote:
> Let me just start over then. Here is the use case:
> ------
> I am a system admin (or tool writer) and I need to add a custom bit to
> the top of every page (like some CSS or JS). I can do this by
> modifying the portal code (which is not awesome but it is at least
> possible) but I don't want to have to
> rebuild the system just to add a JS or CSS include. For resources
> content however, it is impossible for me as a novice developer to
> adjust the head of the page. I can manage something fairly
> straightforward like a provider or a system config option but I can't
> deal with modifying and rebuilding the kernel/access project. I make a
> tweak to the system config (or something similar) and now some extra
> content is added to head of every page rendered in the system.
> -----
>
> And here is the problem we have seen come up:
> -----
> The resource content is rendered as invalid markup and/or not in the
> style of the rest of the system and/or outside the portal. Most users
> don't think of resource content as being outside the system/portal
> (even though the way it is rendered, it is).
> -----
>
> It seems like something that wraps the resource content could fix
> these issues, though it would need to be controllable by the system
> admin without a rebuild of the kernel (which is something we should
> strive to avoid anyway).
>
> I hope this restatement of the goal and problem are more clear.
>
> -AZ
>
>
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