[TYPO3-english] COA inside another COA - is it a wise thing?

[Jigal van Hemert]

JoH asenau wrote:
> please answer the questions - How would you do this without COA? What is
> unstructured and not easy to understand about it?
> 
> myElement = COA
> myElement {
>     wrap = <div class="container">|</div>
>     10 = TEXT
>     10 {
>         value = blah
>         wrap = <h1>|</h1>
>     }
>     20 = COA
>     20 {
>         wrap = <div class="text image">|</div>
>         10 = TEXT
>         10.value = blah
>         10.wrap = <p>|</p>
>         20 = IMAGE
>         20.file = blah
>     }
> }

Joey,

When you look closely to this example there is only static stuff. The 
only thing which needs procession is the IMAGE object. So the 
minimalistic version could be:

myElement = IMAGE
myElement {
	file = blah
	wrap = <div class="container"><h1>blah</h1><div class="text 
image"><p>blah</p>|</div>
}

The whole exercise with the COAs, values, wraps, etc. does not add 
anything to the functionality and only uses various resources.

But of course you meant that all the 'blah' parts would be external 
data, etc.; I think this is what Dmitry meant by "too generic".
The only time I would produce the complicated variation is in case of a 
demo version where the dynamic data isn't there yet..

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