From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 21 3: 5:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from holly.dyndns.org (adsl-208-191-154-55.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [208.191.154.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD57537B417; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.11.4/8.9.3) id f8LA5Zl14565; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:05:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:05:31 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Branching www/ for XML development Message-ID: <20010921050531.A649@holly.calldei.com> Reply-To: chris@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010921001517.N1162@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <200109210259.f8L2xMY47599@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: The FreeBSD Project
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and then, based on the `role' attribute of , 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. -- +-------------------+----------------------------------------------+ | Chris Costello | If a train station is where the train stops, | | chris@FreeBSD.org | what is a work station? | +-------------------+----------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message