As part of a demo hack I did for a prospective customer planning to convert a website to Antville, I implemented a feature to interpret a content part as an image name and render that image, if it exists. This is useful when displaying images outside of the story text. You could still enter the whole image macro tag, but just taking the image name is much more comfortable for content editors and less error prone.

The feature is implemented by passing an as="image" attribute to the content part macro and the following code added to story.content_macro():

   } else if (param.as == "image") {
      var part = this.getContentPart (param.part);
      if (part && this.site.images[part]) {
         delete (param.part);
         renderImage (this.site.images[part], param);
      }
   }

Should I check this in? If so, we might consider doing the same for polls, files etc.

+1 for that (great idea!).

but could we do this more generic, please? because the next thing is to wrap a content part which contains an url around another content part, e.g. the title (i think this was already requested once by jörg kantel).

currently, this is not possible, because i cannot use the link macro and the content part macro at once:

<% link to="<% story.content part="url" %>" %><% story.content part="title" %></a>

it's also impossible to put the title part as text parameter into the content macro if it had an as="link" parameter:

<% story.content part="url" as="link" text="<% story.content part="title" %>" %>

do you have any suggestions how we could do this, then?

(the relation between the image feature and what i have written here might be not so clear: it's about having a custom story extension to be processed further, e.g. as image or as link -- and i think there must be one way to solve both options and probably even more)

in the CVS.