Re: [Cscene-discuss] Look and Feel

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:51:04 -0600, ixx wrote:

>i do not know if authors will have cvs access.  because who knows who will be
>an author right?  i want anyone to be able to submit an article.

For now, I think the way to go is to have articles submitted through
the old mailing list as before, and the editor who takes care of an
article then adds it to an author directory (creating the dir when
needed).

Later, we could have some (CGI) magic, but that is later.

As for how XML and translating to HTML works, I added a sample TODO
list (and its HTML version). It's in the "admin" module, there you'll
find this:

admin/html/TODO.html					TODO.xml
converted to XHTML
admin/xml/dtd/todo.dtd				DTD for TODO list
admin/xml/TODO.xml						TODO
list in XML form
admin/xml/xsl/todo.xhtml.xsl		XML stylesheet

Note that the layout of the "TODO.html" file is nowhere defined in
TODO.xml, but in the stylesheet. You can have several stylesheet
working on the same XML source, i.e. you can have a textual version
("TODO.txt") too. You can also change the layout without
touching/changing the data in "TODO.xml".

In the same way, you can have an "articles.xml" from which you can
generate an index page, an author index, etc. pp.

>we need a spot for preview too.  will that be straight from CVS or a export
>into HTML on a preview site?

CVS allows preview for sure. Anything else can be arranged if needed.

>OK.  but i do not think we should require XML from authors.

HTML (when well-formed) _is_ XML. I agree we should not necessarily
require strict XML from authors. Not a thing we need to decide for now,
I think.

Ciao, Jürgen