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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Website Info Needed


Hi Dave,

Thanks for the help, I'll give it a try.
I'm really intrigued by the metadata nature of the system and that 
boiler plate, menus etc can be added and changed easily.

Eric

Dave Pawson wrote:

> At 14:41 11/04/2002 -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm interested in trying out website but have a few questions. I 
>> looked at the examples and docs as far as I could find from the 
>> download and SF.
>>
>> Does the website go one place and then output to another so that the 
>> src doesn't get uploaded?
> 
> 
> Yes, I have it set up like that.
> 
> 
> 
>> Will it produce XHTML like docbook xsl or just HTML?
> 
> 
> Depends on which stylesheets you call I guess, but I haven't used that 
> feature,
> so I'm unsure.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> How does the XBEL work and what is the advantage?
> 
> I can't answer that one, sorry Eric.
> 
> I learned from the tiny examples that Norm publishes with website,
> its enough to get you started.
> Bit like ant, its all controlled from the dummy 'build' file that you 
> write.
> The stylesheets are controlled by that, and determine
> 
> 
> This is the top end of my 'layout' file, used as the input to phase one
> of the process:
> 
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE layout SYSTEM "../nw/docbook/website2/layout.dtd">
> <layout>
>    <config param="homebanner-tabular" value="graphics/pig.gif"
>           altval="Home Banner"/>
> 
>   <config param="output-root" value="/sgml/site2"/>
> ^^^^ root of all output
> 
>   <copyright>
>    <year>2001</year>
>     <holder role="http://www.dpawson.co.uk";>Dave Pawson</holder>
>   </copyright>
> 
>   <style src="xslfaq.css" type="text/css"/>
> 
> <!-- Now the toc for the whole site. -->
> 
>   <toc page="dpawson.xml"  filename="index.html">
> ^^ input file dpawson.xml becomes output file index.html in (current) 
> root directory.
> 
>     <tocentry page="braille.xml" dir="braille" filename="braille.html" 
> tocskip="0"/>
> ^^ Since a child of previous, this file gets put into the 'braille' 
> directory in current dir
>    which is child of root
> 
>     <tocentry page="xsltuk.xml" dir="xsltuk" filename="index.html" 
> tocskip="0"/>
>     <tocentry page="xslfaq.xml"  dir="xsl" filename="xslfaq.html" 
> tocskip="0">
>       <tocentry page="list.xml"  filename="list.html" tocskip="0"/>
> ^^ this file gets put into root/xsl/list.html
> 
> etc, so the directory structure relates the the tree structure of this 
> file.
>  I like it, its kinda neat imho :-)
> 
> HTH DaveP
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 





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