Dreamweaver Extensions

Working with XML content

Open the gallery.xml file in Dreamweaver (File -> Open), to change the content of your gallery. Also, you can open the XML content file through FlashDevelopment24 Wizard (Right click on Flash Object, then FlashDevlopment24 Wizard -> Classic Photo Gallery). After that, in the category of 'Slides', click the 'Edit' button near the 'Source' field.

The following example shows the basic structure of the content XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<gallery> 
    <item image="photos/photo01.jpg" thumb_caption="Photo 1" description="Any short text"></img>
    <item image="photos/photo02.jpg" thumb_caption="Photo 2" description="Any short text"></img>
    <item image="photos/photo03.jpg" thumb_caption="Photo 3&#xA;640x480" description="Any short text"></img>
</gallery>

In this example, parent <gallery> tag contains 3 child tags <item>. In the caption of the thumbnails for the third image is used line hyphenation character '&#xA;'. The usage of the special symbol provides you to create a caption in a several lines.

<gallery>

Description
Main tag and contains the description of the image gallery.

<item>

Description
Contains the path to the image file and description of this image.

Attributes

  • image, The absolute or relative URL of the image file. A relative path must be relative to the HTML file. Absolute URLs must include the protocol reference, such as http://.
  • description, The description of the image content. This description is located under the enlarged image.
  • thumb_caption, The caption of the thumbnails. This caption is located under the thumbnails.

Optional attributes
The following attributes are optional for tag <item> and used in conjunction with the parameter linkAction="GetLink".

  • link, The URL from which to obtain the document.
  • target, Specifies the window or HTML frame into which the document should be loaded. You can enter the name of a specific window or select from the following reserved target names:
    • _self specifies the current frame in the current window.
    • _blank specifies a new window.
    • _parent specifies the parent of the current frame.
    • _top specifies the top-level frame in the current window.