From owner-freebsd-www Thu Sep 20 19:59:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.176.204.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA8C37B415; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8L2xMY47599; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200109210259.f8L2xMY47599@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Branching www/ for XML development In-Reply-To: <20010921001517.N1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010921001517.N1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Comments: In-reply-to Nik Clayton message dated "Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:15:17 +0100." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1373572280P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:59:22 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_1373572280P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > Lately, I've been experimenting with XML, and XSLT as an alternative. > For those that don't know, XSLT is a stylesheet language for XML. It's > sort of like the XML equivalent of DSSSL offering similar features, but > a vastly different syntax. 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...???... The snapshot looks nice (less cluttered than what we have now), but I'm not sure what how much of the difference is due to the use of XML, how much comes from a reorganization of the information, and how much comes from you using a different browser to render the page from what I usually run. What should I be looking for here? (You probably recognize by now my let's-use-nik-as-a-learning-resource stream of questions.) > So I'm thinking it might be worthwhile to branch www/, and start putting > some things on the branch for people to test and play around with. > Thoughts? Clearly I don't know enough to evaluate the merits of your idea but I certainly can't see a branch hurting anything. I'd say go for it. Bruce. --==_Exmh_1373572280P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7qq0K2MoxcVugUsMRAhXEAJ40ZTa3uS5ZzYa75h1OnvmeuEwvpwCfacSz o2mZXAg5PrHUNUtzgyoGD6M= =9Hle -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1373572280P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message