Re: AW: [xml-dev] Writing a book in XML

[Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@redhat.com>]

Harbarth, Juliane wrote:
> So my plan is as follows:
> 1. Assemble a first preliminary book as one XML file and check that the
> stylesheet nicely renders it.
> 2. Hack it into pieces (forming a tree if possible) and connect them
> using XInclude. 
> 3. Try to make Saxon render it as in step 1.
> 4. Try to enhance the corresponding schema in order to allow validation
> of those fragments allowed, i.e. <chapter> and <section> elements. I
> don't exactly know what that means, it might well be, the schema is
> already fit for that.
> 5. Check that validation works with both the whole thing and the pieces.
> 6. Set up a SVN repository and load the hopefully tree-like 'book'.
> 7. Open the repository for the co-authors to-be and publish the schema,
> so that they have a chance of validating their bits.
> 8. On a routine base run the assemble-and-transform task and publish the
> result.
>   

Looks like a good plan to me.

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Jonathan