[Exist-development] First draft of "A Beginners Guide to XRX on eXist"

[Dan M. <dan...@gm...>]

Here is a link to a very early DRAFT of "A Beginners Guide to XRX".

http://www.syntactica.com/training/xrx/beginners/index.html

You will find links to:

   - the HTML and PDF versions of the beginner's guide
   - the DocBook source
   - a zip file of the source code
   - a link to a the demo CRUDS app running on the Syntactica web server


I have just used the default oXygen DocBook rendering and I am still playing
around with the image scaling and formatting.  Any suggestions on DocBook
formatting or options would be appreciated.

My real questions are what are the critical "learning points" of getting new
people up and running using eXist and XRX to build simple CRUDS
applications?  What are the learning barriers we need to get people over?
Will very simple templates and examples help?  How can we combine our
DocBook versions with the WikiBooks?  How can we move to a "topic-based"
system that will work with an overall search engine to help people quickly
find the example code they need to solve a specific tasks?

Thanks! - Dan