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Re: Website Info Needed
- From: Eric Richardson <eric dot richardson at milagrosoft dot com>
- To: Dave Pawson <DaveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- Cc: docbook <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:37:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Website Info Needed
- Organization: MilagroSoft Inc.
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020412055422.020519e8@pop.freeserve.net>
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.
>
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>> 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.
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>> 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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