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RE: Critique/comments sought: XML/XSLT website documentation project

2003-09-18 04:48:02
Possibly you could benefit by reusing existing xml 
vocabularies, instead of cooking up your own, when it comes 
to creating websites there has been many approaches from the 
old Docbook web dtd's to customizing XHTML via modularisation 
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-m12n-schema/. In addition, the Apache 
Cocoon effort has a few standard approaches of building 
websites with xml/xslt.....

Wouldn't you just know it... I assumed that, given that 90% of people
creating XML are also creating websites, there should be something like
this out there, but despite an exhaustive (well, 10 minutes or so)
search, I couldn't find any schema or DTDs describing websites. But,
like you say, it was certainly good exercise rolling my own.

Thanks for the other tips Jim. One question:

- make the concept of webpage a one to one mapping, each xml  
/ xslt should be considered a web page, instead of putting it 
on a template basis, will make sense later on.

Do you mean that, instead of one XML file detailing everything on the
website, I should use a collection of XML files, one per page? At first
I couldn't understand why this will make sense later on, but I guess
perhaps you mean if I choose to actually build the website using the XML
as a data-source? I had thought partway this far - that I could spit out
skeleton HTML files based on these definitions - but I think my head
would spin if started trying to get every aspect of the final website
into the XML files. Then again, yes, perhaps it will make sense _much_
later on :)

Dan


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