Subject: Re: (dsssl) DSSSL Documentation Project - up for adoption From: Ian Castle <ian.castle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 25 Jan 2002 17:47:54 +0000 |
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:40, B. Tommie Usdin wrote: > We could certainly provide redirects from the current location to a > new one. But if nobody is going to add to it, I'm happy to leave it > where it is. (And I have told Dave Pawson that he is welcome to > replicate any of it that he wants.) > > The only reason I can see to move this stuff is if anyone wants to add > to it. If it's not going to grow it can stay where it is. What > brought this up in the first place was my surprise at the heavy > traffic the DSSSL pages in Mulberry's site are getting. The statistics > led me to think that there is still a lot of interest, and perhaps a > community that may want to add to the cookbook. If nobody wants to > take on adding to it, I'll leave it alone. > I would love to add to it... But I not prepared to make that commitment in public, in case I can't follow through ;-). So, if I get a spare five minutes, unless someone beats me too it, my plan would be to transfer the source to sf.net/openjade CVS.. and see if any one works on it. If they do *then* we can have the debate about which website to put it on. Is there a master for the documentation, or is "wget ...." the thing to do? Rant: It frustrates me greatly when I go to amazon.com, enter "XSLT" and find 25 books (or was it 45?), but on entering "DSSSL" I get "no matches found, but perhaps you meant 'Basic Finger Painting for Pre-School Children by Deidre Dussell'" or whatever it is. It frustrates me greatly that I can enter something like "xslt.com" and get a pretty reasonable site (or xml.com).. but if I enter "dsssl.com" - well at least it's not hardcode porn. It frustrates me greatly that all the XML standards are freely available at www.w3c.org... but I can only look at the titles at the ISO site... ...DSSSL gets ruled out even before you get any where near a technical appraisal of DSSSL vs. XSLT because it is so much harder to find out anything about it. .. So I would love to put some energy into increasing the DSSSL documentation available, and making it easier to find and use. Please don't think I'm getting at anyone with my frustrations: I should write that book on DSSSL; I should get hold of that domain name; I should save up for the standards... or get the ISO to make them more easily available... Regards, Ian. DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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