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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: Website 2.0a1 (ALPHA) released
At 07:02 PM 6/5/01, Norman Walsh wrote: >/ Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk> was heard to say: >| What we need now is a stylesheet to transform the old webpages >| to the new! >| (I've about 500 to do!) > >Great idea! Uhm, actually, that shouldn't be too hard. The one wrinkle >I see is that you've probably got individual pages in external parsed >entities and there's no way for the parser to know what those entities >are/were called. No problem. They are all colocated, and Chris Bayes has a js to provide an xml listing of the files. Run it on n files, each a well formed <webpage> E.g. <webpage navto="yes" id="N3729"> <config param="desc" value="Filters"/> <config param="dir" value="xsl"/> <config param="filename" value="N3729.html"/> <head> All the rest could be copied through (I hope?) Then I write new indexes or whatevers needed at the top end again? >Maybe it makes more sense to bust 'em into bits with a perl script. >Hmm. > >Other problems to keep an eye on: > > - The pages can't be nested anymore. Again, only an index page problem? (and home page) > - Converting <link>s to <olink>s might be a bit ugly. You perl script it, I'll msub it :-) ... er, what sort of links? Cross page links or external ones? > - The Website DTD is now based on *Simplified* DocBook so you've > lost some expressive power. <grin>I doubt if I'll suffer there</grin> Others may though. > (This may suck so much that it can't > be maintained, but the idea is that you should be able to view the > XML versions with an XML browser and for that you want the DTD to > be as small as practically possible.) > >| The indexes (indices??) are trivial. > >More or less. Lets correct that! The index files are 'manual'. Trivial is a function of Norms vs my definition of documentation :-) What's trivial to Norm often causes me severe headaches, but I'm slowly getting used to that :-) Regards DaveP
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