[silva-dev] xslt renderer: 2 questions

[Martijn Faassen]

Eric Casteleijn wrote:
>> For everybody using the renderer system now: if you upgrade to Silva 
>> HEAD, (and you really should because it makes your life easier if you 
>> are working with the renderers) you should do a refresh all on the 
>> service extensions page, because the renderer property is no longer in 
>> the metadata (since it isn't really metadata, if you want to get all 
>> philosophical, and  because not having it be metadata had endless 
>> implementation advantages.) and a refresh all will take care of that. 
>> If you have set renderers for specific objects, they will, however, 
>> switch back to the default.
> 
> I just noticed: after the upgrade the service may break in existing 
> silva roots. If you find that to be the case you can copy all existing 
> content from your existing silva root to a new one. Also, do not forget 
> to upgrade both Silva *and* SilvaDocument to the latest HEAD version.

Um, if this is the only way to do an upgrade, we need to fix this. 
Copying Silva content into a new root is very finicky indeed, and may 
break catalog references, caches, and all sorts of other things.

I think throwing away the service (service_renderer_registry) and doing 
a refresh all might work though, doesn't it?

Regards,

Martijn