Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:05:31 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Branching www/ for XML development Message-ID: <20010921050531.A649@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <200109210259.f8L2xMY47599@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:59:22PM -0700 References: <20010921001517.N1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <200109210259.f8L2xMY47599@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>
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On Thursday, September 20, 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> What do you hope to gain with XML/XSLT? I'm asking this out of
> ignorance, not skepticism. Is it going to make it easier to manage
> changes, or give us better organization, or a more consistent look 'n'
> feel, or...???...
Well, we can use XSLT to help get all of those things.
Instead of marking up each page as an HTML file, we'll probably
have an XML layout something like:
<page role="front-page">
<title>The FreeBSD Project</title>
<section role="alert">
<title>Telnet Advisory</title>
<body>
<p>FreeBSD ships with ... </p>
</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>What is FreeBSD?</title>
...
</section>
</page>
and then, based on the `role' attribute of <page>, different
side-bar configurations may be used, and all of the sidebar stuff
moves out of the individual pages and into the global XSL
stylesheet. Basically, each `page' contains only content, and
the separate XSL stylesheet will add in all the extra Web page
stuff.
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