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[eLML Users] Lightwindow Script Enhancements

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Liebe eLML-Users,
Es gab ein paar Mails in den letzten Wochen wegen Problemen mit  
Lightwindow. Wer Flashes oder Filme in Lightwindow zeigen wollte hatte  
das Problem, dass die Fenstergrösse nicht korrekt war. Das ist so weil  
Lightwindow keine Möglichkeit hat die Grösse des Fensters zu  
bestimmen. Alberto und ich haben nun zwei Verbesserungen in den core  
"gebaut".
1. Wird keine Grösse angegeben macht Lightwindow bei Flashes und MPEG  
Filmen neu einfach ein Fenster das 800x600 gross ist auf (bzw. autom.  
proportional kleiner falls ihr das Fenster kleiner habt).
2. Ihr könnt neu Lightwindow Paramter an das Script übergeben. Wer  
also mit den im Lightwindow Manual beschriebenen Paramtern wie  
lightwindow_height, lightwindow_width oder lightwindow_type arbeiten  
möchte kann das tun. Wie das geht ist auf der Website beschrieben ganz  
am Schluss unter:
http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_your_template.html#your_template_lightwindow.html

Um die Änderungen zu sehen muss wie immer der "core" via CVS  
aktualisiert werden (Developer Release).

Gruss
Joël




ENGLISH:
Dear eLML-Users,
We made some enhancements in the eLML core for the Lightwindow Script.  
If you are using Flash or Movies in Lightwindow the window size now is  
big enough to hopefully display the whole movie. If not you can adjust  
the lightindow parameter as described here on the bottom of the page:
http://www.elml.org/website/en/html/output_your_template.html#your_template_lightwindow.html

As always: Do a cvs update of your "core" before trying out the new  
enhancements.

Greetings
Joël





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[eLML Users] Sourceforge CVS down

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
That's Murphy's Law: I make a release today and now the Sourceforge  
CVS server is down. See:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/wordpress/sourceforge/

2009-03-10: Service CVS unplanned downtime - UPDATE
This outage is in-progress and we are monitoring the progress of the  
RAID array rebuild.  Based on its current stats it looks like there  
will be another 30 hours or so of downtime before we can re-enable  
service again.


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[eLML Users] New eLML 5.1 stable release available!

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users and Newsletter-Subscribers,
We are very happy to announce today a new release: eLML 5.1. This new  
release contains a full support for creating SCORM packages out of  
eLML, including time tracking , etc. You can check the "SCORM and IMS"  
page on the eLML website under "Output Formats" for some screenshots  
and more information about the implementation.

Hand in hand with the continuing development of eLML we also optimize  
the Firedocs eLML Editor. Last week we released the Beta 6 version  
which contains all the new features and bugfixes of the eLML 5.1  
release. Once installed in Firefox the editor add-on automatically  
notifies if new versions are available so you should be able to  
download this editor update directly from Firefoxes "Add-ons" menu.

I'd like to mention that we have also been working on referencing and  
labels in the new release. One new feature is the possibility that one  
element can reference any other element in eLML using the new  
"labelRef" attribute. You are certainly familiar with setting labels  
for units, learningObjects but also for other elements like paragraph,  
multimedia , etc. Using the link-element you could then set a link to  
this item (by the way: you can now also link to certain labels in  
other lessons!). Using the labelRef attribute you are now able to  
reference another element which "connects" the two elements. You will  
still have to define in your project how the transformation should  
handle this "connection" (link? Create a separate box or table?). The  
default-transformation does not use this information at the moment but  
this might change in future releases. This new attribute is also  
available in the metadata (within the copyrightStatement element). So  
you can e.g. add a specific copyright statement for a certain image or  
movie used within your lesson.

You will find a list of (nearly) all changes below. Please note that  
we are announcing this release 5.1 although you will find the release  
5.11 on Sourceforge. We did publish a 5.1 release on Sourceforge about  
a month ago but never announced it. The SCORM implementation was not  
satisfying enough so we waited with our announcement until we had the  
release 5.11. Sorry for the confusion :-)

You can find the download link for the new stable release and much  
more on the eLML website:
http://www.elml.org

For a full list of new features and bugfixes check:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=928413

Have fun with the new release and thanks to the following people for  
building this new release:
Susanne Bleisch, Alberto Sanz, Sandra Roth, Thomas Comiotto, Andreas  
Wittke & Oncampus

Bye
Joël Fisler




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[eLML Users] Wieder mal zu Gast bei Stephen Downes

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=47749

:-)



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[eLML Users] Neue eLML Kurse im März

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Hi,
We are offering eLML courses (in German) at the University of Zurich.

Michael Ziege und ich werden im März wieder einen eLML Einführungskurs  
geben. Der Kurs findet an folgenden Daten statt:
Mo, 16.03.09: 08:30-11:30
Mi, 18.03.09: 08:30-11:30
Mi, 25.03.09: 08:30-11:30

Auf folgender Website findet ihr mehr Infos und könnt euch auch  
anmelden:
https://www.uzh.ch/cgi-bin/ssl-dir/kurse?semester=FS09#WebpublishingeLearning

Gruss
Joël


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[eLML Users] eLML Firedocs Editor Beta 4

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

It does look like many of you downloaded the Beta 3 because else I  
would have got an email :-) Together with the introduction of the  
Firefox Autoupdated feature I misplaced some files which resulted in  
Firedocs not being able to open a lesson at all. So Beat 3 is totally  
useless... Now with Beta 4 it should work again...

Good luck and please test it!!!

Bye
Joël



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[eLML Users] Firedocs eLML Editor Beta 3 (now with autoupdate!)

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
So I managed to release the Beta 3 of our Firedocs eLML Editor just in  
time before the Online Educa conference in Berlin (that I will be  
attending). Please go to www.elml.org --> tools --> Firedocs eLML  
Editor to get the latest release 1.2b03

What has changed? A lot of bugfixes, most of the bugs you submitted  
were fixed. Then we updated the RelaxNG schema etc. I wont go into  
details, you can find them in the Sourceforge bugtracker. One feature  
is new though: The editor will check for updates automatically from  
now on and automatically update itself (if you allow it) as you may  
already know it from other Firefox Add-ons.

Have fun!
Bye
Joël



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[eLML Users] Fwd: Feedback

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Zur Info....

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

> Von: "Medidaprix" <med...@do...>
> Datum: 26. November 2008 10:15:53 GMT+01:00
> An: <joe...@id...>
> Betreff: Feedback
>
> Sehr geehrter Herr Fisler,
>
> mit der Bitte um Entschuldigung für die Verspätung, darf ich Ihnen wie
> angekündigt das Feedback der Jury zu Ihrer Einreichung für den
> Medida-Prix 2008 übermitteln:
>
> Das Projekt "eLML" gehörte zu den diesjährigen Finalisten des
> Media-Prix, einem mit 100.000 € dotierten mediendidaktischen
> Hochschulpreis deutschsprachiger Länder.  Allein die Teilnahme des
> Projektes an der Finalrunde darf ohne jede Frage als Auszeichnung
> verstanden werden. Insbesondere wurde von der Jury die Einfachheit und
> Übersichtlichkeit hervorgehoben, welche durch kürzlich neu
> entwickelte Editoren zusätzlich gesteigert werden konnte.
>
> Es ist zu wünschen, dass dem Projekt die notwendige Verankerung und
> Weiterentwicklung zukommt, damit es als Referenzbeispiel und Werkzeug
> für viele Bildungsinstitutionen wirken kann. Dabei gilt es, die
> Nachhaltigkeit durch breit abgestützte Lösungen zur Finanzierung sowie
> für den Support und Schulungsaufwand zu finden.
>
> Wir möchten uns auf diesem Weg auch nochmals für die Präsentation  
> Ihres
> Projektes im Rahmen der öffentlichen Hearings und auf der Medida-Prix
> Messe bedanken und Sie auf die Aufzeichnung Ihres Vortrags unter
> http://www.medidaprix.org/medida-prix/oeffentliche-hearings
> hinweisen.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Peter Baumgartner
>
>
> -- 
>
> Organisation
> MEDIDA-PRIX 2008
> www.medidaprix.org
> med...@do...
> Tel: +43-2732-893-2351
>
>




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[eLML Users] Changes in developer release of eLML

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
I just committed two changes in the developer release, a major and  
minor change. The minor change is that the column element now also  
supports the visible attribute. The major change is within the online- 
version: I did split the huge elml.xsl file into a file common.xsl and  
the remaining elml.xsl. Why that? The reason is that I want the eLML  
Firedocs Editor and the eLML core transformation to be identical. So  
starting with eLML Firedocs Beta 3 (released in a few days) both the  
core and the editor will use the same common.xsl file to transform or  
display elements like list, table, column, paragraph etc. This will  
eliminate editor problems we had in beta 1 and 2 where certain  
elements would look differently within the editor than using the  
default transformation files.

Please update your developer release and test if everything still  
works for you. I did test it and had no problems but this is OSX  
only... And submit a bug at sourceforge if you find problems or bugs.

Thanks a lot
Joël



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[eLML Users] Discuss new features for eLML!

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
There are still some open issues to be discussed on Sourceforge.  
Please take your time and have a look at the following items (and  
comment them):

- RSS-Feed for eLML:
I implemented an RSS-support for eLML for www.olat.org. Is there  
general interest for this? Should we implement this into the eLML  
core? Or do we not need RSS in eLearing lessons? Please comment here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&atid=695593&aid=1990675&group_id=123157

- Hide terms in glossary:
The RWI wanted to exclude certain terms from the glossary. Is this not  
needed anymore? Anyone else would need this feature? Discuss here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&atid=695593&aid=1801137&group_id=123157

- Integrate web analytics/statistics within eLML lessons? Do you want  
to integrate Google Analytics or PiWi into your lessons?
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&atid=695593&aid=1990668&group_id=123157

- Copyright attribute for multimedia elements:
Is it necessary to define for a multimedia element what kind of  
copyright or licences applies to this image or movie?
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/index.php?func=detail&aid=2219046&group_id=123157&atid=695593

Feel free to also have a look at the other feature requests:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?atid=695593&group_id=123157&func=browse

Please post your comments within the next seven days, thank you.
Bye
Joël



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[eLML Users] Firedocs eLML Editor Beta 2 released

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
We just published the second Beta version of the Firedocs eLML Editor.  
Here is list of the changes implemented:
- Templates for inserting different tables (2x2, 3x3, 4x4), lists,  
selfChecks etc. have been added
- Pulldown menus with labels (bibliography, glossary term etc.) are  
now listed alphabetically
- The toc element can be selected and modified now
- Units can now always be added
- multimedia element with type=div is now marked as special code text
- Some schema fixes are implemented (where can what element be  
inserted or not)
- The editor (WYSIWYG) view has been updated
Feel free to contact me if you have further questions concerning the  
editor. If you found a bug please submit it using the following form  
and be sure to choose Firedocs in the "Catgory" pulldown list:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=add&group_id=123157&atid=695590

Thanks & Good bye
Joël




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[eLML Users] Some Schema and XSLT changes in eLML: Get involved!

[Joël F. - U. Z. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
As some of you might know we have "big" new partner using eLML:  
OnCampus (www.oncampus.de). The are migrating to eLML and will present  
this migration from their old tool also at the Online Educa conference  
in Berlin on Friday 5th at 4:30 pm:
http://www.online-educa.com/programme_detail.php?id=f9

Now having a new partner on board means new feature requests. The did  
a great job in migrating their old structure into the eLML structure  
but some things still remain to be added or changed in eLML. Therefore  
some discussions are running about changes within the XMLSchema of  
eLML and the XSLT default files. Please check them out and comment if  
you want. Here are some changes we already approved and realized:

1. multimedia element now has a title attribute (like table,  
paragraph, list etc.). In the HTML version this title is only  
generated if the multimedia element is used as block element and not  
as an inline element!
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=695593&aid=2107468&group_id=123157

2. multimedia element now has a type called "mp3". This new type had  
an impact on the existing type="mpeg" which has been used for video  
and audio in the past. New is that type="mpeg" is only for video/mpeg  
and type="mp3" is for audio/mpeg, so please change your lessons  
accordingly. I did not find anyone using type="mpeg" in the projects  
stored on our UZH-eLML-Repository server but you might check anyway.  
The discussion is still going on because there seems to be a problem  
with the lightwindow script and there are ideas of implementing a  
Flash player for the multimedia element. Check this tracker and add  
your comment:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2107436&group_id=123157&atid=695593

3. All elements that offer the bibIDRef attribute to reference to a  
bibliographic item do now have a second pageNr attribute. This allows  
to not only reference eg. a table, image or list to a bibliographic  
source but also to add which page eg. you took the image from. This  
has already been implemented. More details here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2107549&group_id=123157&atid=695593

4. Using box in box or more general block- vs. inline-elements: Should  
it be possible to use a box within a box? Or more general: Should eLML  
be more strict with the separation between elements that can contain  
block elements and elements that can contain inline elements (or  
mixed)? Discuss here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2112030&group_id=123157&atid=695593

And there is some more stuff still open in the feature request  
tracker. Go and have a look here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=123157&atid=695593

Bye
Joël


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[eLML Users] eLML 5 & Firedocs eLML Editor veröffentlicht

[Joël F. - I. (M. <joe...@id...>]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
Nach über einem Jahr harter Arbeit zahlreicher Personen ist es soweit:  
Ich freue mich, euch mitteilen zu dürfen, dass diese Woche eLML 5  
sowie der neue (und lang erwartete) "Firedocs eLML-Editor"  
veröffentlicht wurden. Weitere neue Features von eLML 5 sind  
beispielsweise Thomas Linowskys "Template Builder", ein Google Summer  
of Code Projekt) zur einfachen Erstellung von eLML-Layout-Templates  
(XSLT), die Transformationsfiles für die Office-Formate ODF/ODT und  
DocBook (von Alberto Sanz, ebenfalls ein Google Summer of Code  
Projekt), eine volle Unterstützung des CSS-Frameworks YAML  
(www.yaml.de) und optimierter HTML-Code für Suchmaschinen. Ihr findet  
eine detaillierte Übersicht unten. Zudem wurde die Website  
www.elml.org völlig überarbeitet und bietet zahlreiche neue  
Information sowie Tipps&Tricks zu eLML.

Fragen zu eLML bitte an el...@id.... Vielen Dank.


eLML 5 RELEASE INFORMATION:

New tools for eLML available:
- Firedocs eLML Editor: A Mozilla Firefox plugin to edit your eLML  
lessons
- Template Builder: Create eLML layout templates using a simple  
webbrowser
- AddOn for Lenya and UniCMS: Import, manage, export and publish your  
lessons
- make4eLML Serverscripts: A set of shell scripts for eLML

New transformation files:
- ODF Open Document Format (Open Office)
- DocBook
- LaTeX

YAML now fully supported:
- Easy installation of YAML
- YAML-Support for transformation without layout
- Template Builder also supports YAML
- column-element now transformed using YAML subtemplates
- table element optimized for YAML display
- Many bugfixes concerning the YAML code

Search engine friendly:
- Sitemap.xml file (for Google etc.) automatically created
- Optimized <META>-tags in <head>-part of HTML-file created (Both  
description- and keyword tag are optimized)
- <title> tag and HTML code optimized for search engines

All versions:
- Index now correctly supported (including all attributes)
- Icon image format can be defined in configuration file (jpg, gif or  
png)

Print/FO:
- New and hopefully better design of PDF (new fonts etc.)
- Better support for images (especially without specific height/width  
attributes)
- Many bugfixes within the FO code

Online:
- Lightwindow script for preview of large images included  glossary  
and term element


Und sicherlich noch einiges mehr, das hier vergessen ging :-)

Liebe Grüsse
Joël Fisler



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[eLML Users] New location for YAML folder

[Joël F. - I. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
I am working hard on eLML 5 release and there are some minor changes  
that might affect you:

A first change was made by Susanne in the XML Schema. If you want you  
can ignore it because your lessons will still be valid. She did loosen  
the definition of the @target attribute of the link element. Up to now  
you could only choose between target=_blank and target=_top which  
doesnt make sense. Now you can put any kind of text in this attribute  
field. If you still prefer to have a validation you can read Susannes  
text below on how to do that modifying your projects validate.xsd

A second change concerns people using YAML. The change was done by  
Thomas Linowsky and myself. As you know he wrote the Template Builder  
application that generates layout templates. Up to now you had to  
download YAML and put the "yaml" folder within your templates folder  
(eg. "plain" or "gitta" or "main" or however you called your  
template). It was on the same level as the elml.css and the online.xsl  
file. Now we moved it one step up and did put it directly within the  
"_templates" folder. This is where eLML and the Template Builder  
expects the YAML folder. Why that change? Because some projects have  
10 layout templates and more and if you use YAML you would have had 10  
copies of that folder and this doesnt make sense. Especially if you  
know that this folder contains hundreds of CSS files etc.

You can always ask me if something concerning one of these changes is  
not clear: el...@id...

Bye
Joël



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>
>> Comment By: Susanne Bleisch (susannebleisch)
> Date: 2008-09-10 15:01
>
> Message:
> Done. I changed the elml.xsd file - the attribute target has now an
> xs:string content definition (no validation). If you need validation  
> and
> want to extend the enumeration with your own values you need to add  
> the
> following section to your project specific validate.xsd file.
>
> Replace
> 	<!--The name of the main eLML schema file.-->
> 	<xs:include schemaLocation="../../core/structure/elml.xsd"/>
>
> in your validate.xsd file with
> 	<!--The name of the main eLML schema file.-->
> 	<!--<xs:include schemaLocation="../../core/structure/elml.xsd"/>-->
> 	<!--replace xs:include by xs:redefine and redefine any elements you  
> need
> to-->
> 	<xs:redefine schemaLocation="../../core/structure/elml.xsd">
> 		<xs:simpleType name="targetType">
> 			<xs:restriction base="elml:targetType">
> 				<xs:enumeration value="_blank"/>
> 				<xs:enumeration value="_top"/>
> 			</xs:restriction>
> 		</xs:simpleType>
> 	</xs:redefine>
>
> and add any further enumeration values you need.
>
> This information should be added to the documentation - the website?  
> I'll
> redo the automatically generated XMLSchema documentation.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------


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Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
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[eLML Users] GSoC Closing Event on September 4th 2008

[Joël F. - I. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,

As most of you know we had two students working for Google Summer of  
Code:
- Thomas Linowsky created an eLML Template Generator
- Alberto Sanz created a transformation file for the DocBook format

Both projects were successfully finished last week and will be  
integrated into the eLML project during the next weeks. Both students  
will present their work at our public GSoC closing event next week on  
Thursday, September 4th 2008 at 4pm (Swiss time) at the University of  
Zurich-Irchel. We plan to live stream and/or record the presentations  
for those who cannot attend. Only the two presentations from India  
will be English, the other presentations will be in German (sorry).  
After the presentations we will celebrate the successful end of GSoC  
with a barbecue in our beautiful Irchel park (hopefully with good  
weather).

You can download a PDF with all the details on our website at:
http://www.elml.ch/website/en/download/gsoc2008_final_event.pdf


Hope to se you next week
Bye
Joël


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Universität Zürich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
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[eLML Users] make quicktime videos scaling to your browser window width

[Florian G. <gn...@fr...>]

Hi everybody

With the default templates in eLML it's not possible to have videos  
scaling to the browser width. When you have a large video and a small  
browser window (e.g. when beaming in a classroom) you might encounter  
scrollbars and your video is not visible entirely.

Thus, we applied the following changes to make it work (only for  
quicktime movies):

1) In the eLML XSLT: Add the scale="aspect" parameter to both the  
object and the embed tag.

    <xsl:template name="elml:Quicktime">
        <xsl:param name="pathMultimedia"/>
        <object type="video/quicktime" classid="clsid: 
02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" coebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab 
" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" scale="aspect">
            <xsl:call-template name="elml:Label"/>
            <xsl:call-template name="elml:MultimediaAttributes"/>
            <xsl:attribute name="data">
                <xsl:value-of select="$pathMultimedia"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
            <param name="src">
                <xsl:attribute name="value">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$pathMultimedia"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
            </param>
            <param name="kioskmode" value="false"/>
            <param name="autoplay" value="false"/>
            <param name="controller" value="true"/>
            <embed autoplay="false" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ 
" type="video/quicktime" kioskmode="false" scale="aspect">
                <xsl:call-template name="elml:Label"/>
                <xsl:attribute name="src">
                    <xsl:value-of select="$pathMultimedia"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:call-template name="elml:MultimediaAttributes"/>
            </embed>
        </object>
    </xsl:template>

2) in the CSS, add the following rule:
.multimedia_paragraph_center object, .multimedia_paragraph_center  
embed{width: 100%}


To add a scaling movie you must then use the following line in your  
content:

<multimedia type="quicktime" units="pixels" height="600" width="800"  
align="center" src="../multimedia/mymovie.mov">Mymovie</multimedia>

Note that it is mandatory that you specify a width and height in  
pixel. % is invalid and won't work at all.


The browser is now doing the following:
- It creates a 800x600 pixel box
- Within the box the movie is displayed centered
- The movie width is not larger than your browser window. When you  
make the browser window smaller, the movie scales to this size.
- When you make the browser window larger than the 800x600 box, the  
movie stops scaling at 800x600px

Note that the 800x600 must not be the size of the movie not must it  
have the same aspect ratio as the movie. The only thing it does is  
defining the  maximal space the movie can take. Unfortunately the  
height is always used, which means that when you have a very small  
browser window you will have a white space above and below the movie  
(e.g. displayed movie height is 400, you will have 100px above and  
100px below the movie to match the defined 600px height.



Joël, do you think adding the scale="aspect" and the CSS rule to the  
default xslt/css would make sense?

Of course you can also add the css rule to the left and right aligned  
movie, but since the scaled movie will always be centered and the 100%  
rule is needed to make the scaling work, I thought it would make sense  
to have it only there.


BTW, to achieve the same effect on an image, just define a 100% width  
without a height:
<multimedia type="jpeg" align="center" units="percent" width="100"  
src="../image/myscreenshot.jpg"></multimedia>
This makes sense only for large images, e.g. for screenshots.

Cheers
Florian


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[eLML Users] eLML wins CATCON Gold Award & Template Builder Beta-Release & More

[Joël F. - I. (M. <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Newsletter subscribers,
So it has been exactly half a year since our last newsletter which  
does not mean that nothing is happening at the eLML project, just our  
communication is a bit slow :-)

eLML wins CATCON Gold Award in Beijing:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Today eLML won the CATCON Gold Award in Beijing at the ISPRS  
Conference! We would like the CATCON organizers for this prize! You  
will find more information about this here within the next days:
http://www.isprs2008-beijing.org
http://www.igg.tu-berlin.de/1306
http://gallery.mac.com/fisler#100042 (A short 3 min. Movie)


eLML is a Medida Prix Finalist:
------------------------------------------
eLML also is one of the finalists for the Medida Prix eLearning Award  
awarded at the GMW Conference in Austria on September 18th. Wish us  
luck and "drückt uns die Daumen" as we say in German!
http://www.medidaprix.org/


Google Summer of Code:
------------------------------------
You might have heard that eLML is participating at this years Google  
Summer of Code (GSoC) and has been nominated as a mentoring  
organization. Currently two students are working on two different  
projects. Alberto Sanz is creating a transformation file to transform  
eLML lessons into the DocBook format. He is also (not part of GSoC)  
the person creating the Open Document Format (ODF) converter and we  
plan to release both sometimes in September 2008.


GSoC: Template Builder Beta released:
------------------------------------------------------
The second project is Thomas Linowskys Template Generator. With his  
tool you can easily create eLML templates using a standard webbrowser.  
No XSLT-knowledge needed anymore! Please visit www.elml.ch and read  
the latest news entry on how to download and use the template  
generator. Please note that this is a beta release and that Thomas  
would appreciate your feedback if you downloaded and used his tool!  
Thanks a lot!


The famous eLML editor...:
------------------------------------
So in the last newsletter we promised to release it at the OLAT  
conference in March 2008. The the release of the editor was postponed  
to July 2008. Then Firefox 3 came out and - since the editor is a  
Firefox plugin - many new problems arised. Another month of work plus  
holidays, missing documentation etc. You get the picture. But I can  
offer you (the newsletter subscribers) exclusively a preview version.  
Point your browser at:
http://www.elml.ch/firedocs-elml.xpi
to download the plugin. Then open Firefox and choose "Open" in the  
File menu. The Plugin will be installed. After a restart you will see  
a new menu to the right of the Google Search field. Choose "Open..."  
to open an existing eLML lesson and test the editor. You can send  
comments to el...@id... but you will have to wait for the first  
official (beta) release in September for documentation etc. Have fun!


eLML stable version 5:
-------------------------------
The current stable version 4 of eLML is outdated. We suggest that you  
use the "developer version" instead. We plan to have a new eLML 5  
release this automn. The developer release already contains a lot of  
new stuff like better support for the editor, the template generator  
and for YAML, new tooltip and lightwindow script, optimized HTML-page  
for Google and other search engines (including the automatic  
generation of a sitemap.xml), ODF and DocBook generator and much more.


So eLML is alive and running! But with all the stuff we do we simply  
lack the time to maintain and update the website regularly. Sorry  
about that. We do our best :-)

Greetings from Beijing
Joël




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Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
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[eLML Users] Updated lightwindow script and integration into eLML

[Joël F. - I. (M. <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
We found a bug of the lightwindow script that we had to fix: In our  
upcoming OLAT 6 release (www.olat.org) planned at the University of  
Zurich on July 14th, the whole layout is based on YAML and content  
package (created e.g. with eLML) are integrated into OLAT 6 using  
iFrames. Now lightwindow does not know anything about iFrames and  
therefore the script did not work. Thankfully Florian Gnägi (Frentix)  
fixed this bug and I updated the eLML core and website today to  
reflect the changes. I took this opportunity to better integrate  
lightwindow into eLML. New is:
- Configure if you want to use lightwindow or not in your config.xml  
file. This means that you can also disable lightwindow now.
- The paths to the JavaScripts are now integrated into the HEAD tag as  
they should
- Now need to adapt the paths to the images within the lightwindow  
JavaScript files.

But for you this means 5 minutes of work. So here's what existing  
lightwindow users should do:
1. Do a "cvs update" of the core.
2. Delete your _templates/YOURTEMPLATE/lightwindow folder!
3. If you have an online.xsl file and there within the elml:LayoutBody  
template three references to the lightwindow script, then please  
delete it. The references to be deleted are probably like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../../_templates/{$layout}/ 
lightwindow/prototype.js"><![CDATA[ ]]></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../../_templates/{$layout}/ 
lightwindow/scriptaculous.js?load=effects"><![CDATA[ ]]></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../../_templates/{$layout}/ 
lightwindow/lightwindow.js"><![CDATA[ ]]></script>

4. Read the following short manual and do exactly as written:
http://elml.ch/website/en/html/output_your_template.html#your_template_lightwindow.html

Dont forget to change the path within your elml.css file!


Sorry for the inconvenience but in the end this makes your life easier  
and it is fully compliant with the new OLAT 6!

Bye
Joël



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Universität Zürich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
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[eLML Users] New feature for eLML: RSS? (& webstatistics)

[Joël F. - I. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Hi,
I sent you last week an email about eLML and the support for Google  
Analytics. Rene Schegg sent me a mail with the hint that there is an  
open source solution for this called Piwik (see below, second text).  
Furthermore some of you sent me answers directly with there comments.  
Now since eLML is an open source project and I would like to have  
everyones opinion public I create a new feature request. Check the  
second text below for more details and for the link where you can add  
your comment.

Now for the OLAT website (www.olat.org) I create an RSS feed in eLML.  
Since I already implemented the technology to create both RSS and Atom  
XML files I was wondering if we should integrate that into the core.  
Please read my comment below and post your comments on Sourceforge  
using the link after the text.

Please do not reply to my personal address, thanks.
Bye
Joël




>
> Initial Comment:
> I am using eLML also to create websites like the eLML website or the  
> OLAT website (www.olat.org). Since the eLML website is hosted on  
> Sourceforge we automatically have RSS feeds to offer (https://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_project.php?group_id=123157 
> ) the the OLAT website was missing a RSS feed up to now. So I had to  
> integrate it into eLML. What I did was the following:
> 1. Defined a CSS Class RSS
> 2. Mark all paragraphs etc. that should be rendered as a unique RSS  
> entry with this class
> 3. Write XSLT code that loops through all the RSS-marked items and  
> create an XML file.
>
> So now I can create two formats: RSS 2.0 and Atom:
> feed://www.olat.org/website/en/html/rss.xml
> feed://www.olat.org/website/en/html/atom.xml
>
> One important feature is missing: The date. All the entries now  
> always show the date of the creation of the XML file which is not  
> correct.
>
> My question would be: Should we integrate such a feature into eLML?  
> I could see the following solution:
> - Add an attribute "rss" to certain block elements like paragraph,  
> column, table or list. These are the elements that could hold a new  
> RSS-news-item.
> - This attribute would store a date only.
> - Loop through all the elements that have this attribute and sort by  
> date. Then create the two XML files.
>
> Does this make sense? Would that be useful for you?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You can respond by visiting:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=695593&aid=1990675&group_id=123157
>



>
> Initial Comment:
> I am using Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics) to monitor  
> our eLML-based OLAT website (www.olat.org) and also the eLML website  
> itself (www.elml.ch). As you can see when looking at the source code  
> you have to integrate some proprietary Google JavaScript code at the  
> end of the page. So big brother is watching you.
>
> But there is also an open source solution: Piwik (http://piwik.org).  
> Is someone already using this software? Comments?
>
> My question would be if it makes sense to somehow integrate the  
> support for both Google Analytics or an open source solution like  
> Piwik into eLML. This would mean that you could e.g. enter your  
> Google Analytics ID or Plazi ID into the eLML config file and the  
> generated HTML pages would already contain the correct necessary  
> JavaScript code. Or do you have other means to monitor web- 
> statistics for your lessons?
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You can respond by visiting:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=695593&aid=1990668&group_id=123157


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Universität Zürich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
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[eLML Users] Ranking in Google better thanks to eLML improvements

[Joël F. - I. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
Last week I did some improvements within the eLML core that will help  
you rank better in Google. I mainly added two things:
1. eLML now generates a sitemap.xml file
2. META-tags are a lot better and more descriptive

I started working with Google Webmaster tools (http://www.google.com/intl/de/webmasters/ 
) and learned some new stuff. So I thought why not implement it into  
the eLML core :-) Now I dont want to make publicity for Google but we  
cannot neglect the tips listed there if we want our HTML pages to be  
found. You will also find more information about sitemaps and how the  
work under the above link. Please note that the sitemap.xml file is  
generated on root level as is the manifest.xml file. This is because  
its basically where it belongs on your webserver :-)

I also integrated Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/)  
into both olat.org and elml.ch using eLML but this is not (yet?) a  
general feature of eLML. I did include this adapting my online.xsl  
file. I could also implement this directly into the core but:
a) I dont know if its of general interest
b) its a Google-specific feature so I dont know if it should really be  
part of the core (the above two features are not Google-specific but  
general improvements for ALL search engines)

Feel free to contact me if you have further questions about these  
minor improvements.

Bye
Joël



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Universität Zürich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
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[eLML Users] Fwd: Beta Tester für eLML Template Generator gesucht

[Joël F. - I. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
We are looking for beta-testers for our GSoC projects, especially the  
eLML template generator. Please have a look at www.elml.ch (latest  
news) for information about GSoC and eLML or read the mail below for  
more information about beta-testing possibilities...

Bye
Joël



Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

> Umgeleitet von: <cu...@ol...>
> Von: "Joël Fisler - Informatikdienste (MELS)" <joe...@id...>
> Datum: 28. Mai 2008 12:13:09 GMT+02:00
> Betreff: Beta Tester für eLML Template Generator gesucht
>
> Hoi zäme,
> Ihr seid alles eLML-Cracks und potentielle Kandidaten für einen Beta- 
> Test eines neuen Tools :-) Wie ihr vielleicht mitgekriegt habt  
> beteiligt sich die Universität Zürich (bzw. wir das OLAT-Team) am  
> Google Summer of Code Projekt. Wir haben total 8 Stipendien  
> erhalten, davon zwei für eLML. Eine genaue Übersicht findet ihr hier:
> http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/about_participating.html
>
> Da Thomas Linowsky nächste oder übernächste Woche schon eine Beta- 
> Version seines Template-Generators bereit haben wird, sind wir auf  
> der Suche nach Beta-Testern. Was macht sein Tool genau? Mit dem  
> Template Generator kann man webbasiert ein eLML-Template erstellen.  
> Ihr gebt an wieviele Spalten Header, Footer und Content haben, wo  
> die Navigation hin soll, könnt Bilder raufladen, Spaltenbreiten  
> festlegen, Farben etc. und am Schluss generiert das Tool ein  
> gültiges XSLT-File mit welchem ihr eure Lektionen dann  
> transformieren könnt. Ein Beispiel eines solchen Tools seht ihr hier  
> und zwar für YAML:
> http://builder.yaml.de
>
> Was müsstet ihr genau testen?
> 1. Ein Layout mit dem Tool erstellen
> 2. Eine eurer Lektionen mit dem generierten Template transformieren
> 3. Feedback geben, Bugs und Verbesserungsvorschläge übermitteln
>
> Bitte meldet Euch doch bei mir bis am kommenden Montag, falls ihr  
> bereit wärt euch als Beta-Tester zur Verfügung zu stellen. Total  
> sprechen wir wohl von unter einer Stunde Aufwand.
>
> Lieber Gruss
> Joël
>
> PS. Auch für den DocBook Konverter von Alberto Sanz werden später im  
> Juli sicherlich noch Beta-Tester gesucht. Falls ihr mit DocBook  
> vertraut seid und das Transformationsfile testen würdet, so meldet  
> euch doch schon mal bei mir.
>
>
>
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> Joël Fisler
> Universität Zürich - Informatikdienste (ID)
> Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
> Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
> CH-8057 Zürich
>
> Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
> Mail: joe...@id...
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Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
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[eLML Users] Tooltip Script updated

[Joël F. - I. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
I updated Walter Zorns Tooltip Script from version 4 to version 5. We  
had some problems with the older version and hopefully they are gone  
now :-) You can find more information about the tooltip script here:
http://walterzorn.de/tooltip/tooltip.htm

What do you have to do to update the script?
1. CVS-Update the "core"
2. Re-transform your lesson
3. Check if everything works correctly

Did you use special configurations (template  
elml:LayoutTooltipScriptConfig) for the script?
No problem, the variable names are the same, should work. Version 5  
has some more variables, you can add them if you like or ignore them  
(then the default value is taken)

Do you have your own template for the <term> or <annotation> element?
The onmouseover attribute remains the same but now there is a  
onmouseout event. Add the following code to your link attribute:
onmouseout="UnTip()"

You can see the new script in action if you look at www.olat.org on  
the first page.


Please let me know if you have problems with the new tooltip script.
Bye
Joël

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Universität Zürich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
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[eLML Users] Studierende mit Java Kenntnissen für Sommerjob gesucht

[Joël F. - I. (MELS) <joe...@id...>]

Liebe eLML-Users,
Falls ihr Informatik-Studierende kennt die sich für einen Sommerjob  
interessieren, dann wäre untenstehendes Angebot eine Möglichkeit um  
mit einem interessanten Projekt Geld zu verdienen. Bitte leitet doch  
das Mail weiter. Vielen Dank im voraus.

Gruss
Joël




Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
> Von: OLAT Conference 2008 <con...@ol...>
> Datum: 18. März 2008 15:39:32 GMT+01:00
> An: con...@ol...
> Betreff: OLAT@Google Summer of Code
>
> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
> Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn Sie untenstehende Mitteilung auf  
> Ihrer Website bzw. in Ihrem Newsletter publizieren oder an  
> interessierte Studierende weiterleiten könnten. Es geht darum, dass  
> sich Studierende via Google für einen Sommerjob bei den Open Source  
> Projekten OLAT (Java Programmierung) oder eLML (XML/XSLT basiert)  
> bewerben können und rund $5000 verdienen. Anmeldeschluss ist  
> allerdings schon der 31. März 08!
>
>
> OLAT als Software-Entwicklungprojekt bei Google Summer of Code  
> akzeptiert
> *************************************************************************************
>
> Die hauptsächlich an der Universität Zürich entwickelte Open Source  
> Lernplattform OLAT ist von Google als Software-Projekt in ihrem  
> Summer of Code-Programm auserkoren worden. Im Rahmen dieser  
> Initiative vergibt Google Stipendien von rund 5'000'000 $ an  
> Studierende, die ihre Kreativität in die Weiterentwicklung von  
> ausgewählten Open-Source-Projekten stecken möchten. Google will  
> damit der Open-Source-Idee zu mehr Auftrieb verhelfen und - nicht  
> zuletzt - weltweit Software-Talente als potentielle Google- 
> Entwickler ausfindig machen. Interessierte Studierende können sich  
> noch bis 31. März 2008 für das Programm bewerben. Eine (gratis)  
> Teilnahme an der ersten OLAT Konferenz 2008 (27./28. März) wäre  
> möglich. Weitere Informationen unter:
>
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/uzh/about.html
>
>
> --------------------------
> ENGLISH:
>
> Dear all,
> We would be very happy if you could publish the following news text  
> on your website or newsletter. Thanks a lot in advance (valid until  
> March 31st, 2008):
>
>
> OLAT accepted at the Google Summer of Code students program
> ***********************************************************************
>
> OLAT, an open source learning management system founded by the  
> University of Zurich, has been accepted at the Google Summer of Code  
> program. The GSoC initiative offers students the possibility to work  
> for open source projects and be paid by Google (around $5000 for a  
> summer job). The aim of GSoC is to foster open source projects, to  
> recruit talented programmers for the project ant probably also for  
> themselves. Students interested in receiving such a grant should  
> apply until March 31st, 2008. For interested students a free visit  
> of the first int. OLAT conference 2008 in March 27th/28th could be  
> organized. More information here:
>
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/uzh/about.html
>
>
> Bye
> Joël Fisler



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Universität Zürich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Zürich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
Web: http://www.id.uzh.ch/org/mels.html
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[eLML Users] Article about eLML

[<joe...@id...>]

We get noticed in the States :-)
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3D4843=
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Bye
Jo=EBl


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Universit=E4t Z=FCrich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Z=FCrich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
Web: http://www.id.uzh.ch/org/mels.html
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[eLML Users] Minutes of the eLML Meeting from December 12th 2008

[<joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
A very short minutes of last weeks eLML Meeting. Thanks for all the =20
people who attended the meeting:
Olaf Schnabel (ETH), S=E4mi Wiesmann (ETH) Roland Streule (PTO Projekt), =
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Thomas Comiotto (MELS, Sandra Roth (MELS), Thomas Grossmann (GIUZ), =20
Susanne Bleisch (FHNW), Michael Ziege (MELS), Res Zangger (ESO =20
Projekt), Jo=EBl Fisler (MELS), Petra Kauer-Ott (GIUZ), Alberto Sanz =20
(MELS), Caspar N=F6tzli (ELC), Lukas St=E4hli (RWI), Bernhard Fuchs =20
(KLPHS), Patrick Kammerer  (ESO Projekt)

1. Alberto Sanz made a short demo of his ODF-Transformation. Some of =20
the meeting participants would be interested in testing and using it. =20=

The majority argued that a real benefit would be a "2-way-=20
communication" meaning that you could not only transform eLML to ODF =20
but also transform the edited ODF document back to eLML. This would =20
mean to continue developing the Open Office Editor Andre Locher =20
started last year. Unfortunately there are no financial resources at =20
the moment for that but we will see. Another concern is that the ODF =20
document cannot be directly imported into Word 2007. You need a =20
converter and this converter is not always working properly. Hopefully =20=

this will be fixed during the next months.
Planned release date is March 2008.

2. Thomas Comiotto presented the beta version of his XML editor. The =20
editor is programmed as a firefox plugin and it can be easily =20
installed with a double-click. It works both integrated into Lenya/=20
UniCMS or as a standalone Editor. There are some extensions for eLML =20
but eg. the GUI for bibliography or glossary is not finished yet. =20
Multimedia assets are only supported in the UniCMS version at the =20
moment but will soon be working in both version. There is a WYSIWYG =20
view and an outline view, other views could be implemented (eg. by the =20=

projects) by adapting an XSLT file. The modalities for becoming a =20
betatester were discussed and some of you already contacted Thomas and =20=

received a beta-version. There seems to be a problem in Windows XP on =20=

some machines but this should be solved soon. Release of the Lenya/=20
UniCMS editor will be on March 7th 2008. Release of the standalone =20
eLML editor should also be around this time (we would like to present =20=

it at the OLAT conference in late March).

After the demo there was a discussion about the strategy, the future =20
of this tool and the importance of eLML with the editor for the =20
University of Zurich. Unfortunately there is not much I can say at the =20=

moment about this because the future employment of Thomas Comiotto =20
after July 2008 is not within my competences. But I am very positive =20
that we will find a reasonable solution. I'll keep you updated.

3. The last points (open requests and varia) were skipped due to the =20
long demo and discussion. Please go to =
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elml/=20
  and post your comments to the open requests there. I will try to =20
"clean up" or close open requests in the first two January weeks.

Bye
Jo=EBl

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Universit=E4t Z=FCrich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Z=FCrich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
Web: http://www.id.uzh.ch/org/mels.html
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in Zurich, Switzerland. See http://www.olat.org/conference for more info