DOCBOOK: Docbook websites

Hi,

 

I'm not too thrilled about the website xsl 
pages.  I'd like to use the Docbook format.  Usually web applications 
consist of dynamic content and static content.  I'd like to get the static 
content in a docbook format (all in one place).  As far as having too much 
content in one place, I was thinking before (with my own format) to create 
virtual sites, where links would point to different docbooks (or even 
articles-this hasn't been completely thought out).  However, the stylesheet 
would be the same so the site would be consistent.  

 

It is a matter of design... How much content would 
go into one docbook xml file is important but it seems this would be an issue 
anyway.  For example having the W3C xml and SOAP specs in the same webpage 
does't make too much sense and makes the page much larger. Why not have two 
docbooks?

 

However, the links to different docbooks would be 
hard-coded into something like the doc.header section.

 

Radical?  What I've been doing so far is 
parsing xml files on the fly with xalan/xerces and some Java classes and would 
like to continue with this if the 'xml' is not very big.  It doesn take a 
lot more processing power, but publishing the content is a matter of 
uploading a new xml document.

 

Just my 'slant' on things.  If I get anything 
up, I'll post something.

 

Thanks,

Roy

 

 

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  Dave Pawson 

  
To: Roy Hoobler ; docbook 

  
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 2:39 
  AM

  
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: New Member...

  

At 23:44 25/08/2001 -0400, Roy 
  Hoobler wrote:
>I've been trying to do several website content models as 
  XML (for websites 
>or 'portals').  Some are already in 
  production.  I wish I found out about 
>docbook sooner!  Is 
  anyone else doing customer XSL/website-style 
>development with 
  docbook?  I started thinking 'articles' would be safice 
>but now 
  would like to create the entire website with a TOC for navigation 
>and 
  Appendix/Glossary for help content (maybe).
>
>Anyway, just wanted 
  to know if anyone has similar ideas.

You could use docbook stylesheets 
  from sourceforge, though Norm Walsh has
a suite of stylesheets that sit on 
  top of docbook specifically for websites.
nwalsh.com and www.dpawson.co.uk are both built using 
  these stylesheets.

The website stylesheets are at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/

HTH 
  DaveP

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