[development] proposal for theming nodes

[VJ]

We are probably talking about different things, but all my nodes are
themed by default based on the css file the taxonomy is using
(taxonomy_theme.module)


> Hi,
>
> way too often i have to hack modules or even core (upload) to make it
> *not*
> append HTML to $node->body.
>
> I think this practice of appending stuff to the body is very bad, since it
> makes it impossible to add thatdata elsewhere, without duplication.
>
> I think that teh best option is an additional variable in $node
> $node->extra
> containing structured data added by all the modules.
> $node->extra->upload could, for example contain that uplaod/attachement
> table,
> that is now hardcoded to the body.
>
> In the very very end, the theme_node will iterate over all these ->extra
> 's
> and append them to teh body.
>
> Now, the code, the patch, should not be too hard to make, its just a few
> lines
> to the theme_node functions
>
> The hard part, imho is to convert **all** core modules to use this. and
> with
> All i mean all :). Taxononomy, for example, should add its terms in there,
> while book module should add its navigation.
>
> The other thing is, that while this annoys me a huge lot, i just don't
> have
> time to get a patch going, untill at least end of Januari.
>
> Waht do others think
> Bèr
>
> PS: Im not to sure about tis crossposting thing, but there are loads of
> theme
> and developers issues; is it safe to assume that interested parties at
> least
> read development? (so that we can keep this on development)
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