Re: [docbook-apps] Website build/deploy

[Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com>]

On Tue, Jan 29 2008 10:19:44 +0000, davep@dpawson.co.uk wrote:
> I installed a website app for some non geeks.
> They like what they see but are concerned about
> the authoring/building/deploying.
>
> No way round authoring - for each new page
> a new website xml file is needed.
>
> The build / deploy is possible though.
>
> Some desktop icon which runs a script to build
> the entire site, stop on errors, then use
> a command line ftp command to deploy to the host.
>
>
> Has anyone done this before please?

I don't know what capabilities you/they have on the web server, but is
this a possible scenario:

1. Edit local XML and do local transform to check it is correct.

2. Check local XML into Subversion repository on server.

3. Subversion check-in hook script on server checks out updated file(s)
   and runs transform using its copy of the stylesheets.

4. New HTML appears on server.

More work for you to set up, but they could do then the whole thing
without leaving their XML IDE (e.g., oXygen).

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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