Re: XML+XSL Workflow Advice?

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of other things I should mention:

Fo any appropriate text based content that we might ever possibly want to
license, we use XML that is compliant with the DocBook dtd.
http://www.docbook.org (Norm Walsh, who wrote the O'Reilly's book on docbook
has also created a set of XSL stylesheets that handle the entire spec - it
is educational to see how he does it -http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl/ )

For any kind of testing or assessment type of content that we want to
license, we use XML that is compliant with the IMS dtd
http://www.imsproject.org ( I don't know if it has been the best choice does
anybody know a better option?)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: XML+XSL Workflow Advice?


> I hope this thread gets some play - very interested in hearing how others
do
> it.
>
> In addition to XSL, I use Macromedia's Director and Flash (both of which
we
> use to style XML content).  I work for the Design Studio in our (500
person)
> company. I work closely with server-side java developers, Oracle
consultants
> and Interwoven consultants (all from differnet departments). We manage our
> content workflow through Interwoven (content entry through deployment).
We
> manage code with CVS (invaluable).
>
> I genrally work from a spec'd out Photoshop file, html storyboards (just
> simple, basic html walk through of the site - so styling or graphics), and
> possibly some kind of html demo (styled, with graphics, but not really
> functional).
>
> I usually create a "siteconfig.xml" file that lays out the site
> hierarchically down to the page level. At each hierarchical level are
things
> like global elements such as page navigation. At the page level I mark-up
> page specific information like pointers to any XML that makes up the page
> and the XSL that will style it.  This is either precompiled at server
> startup for dynamic sites or used later with a Perl script or java app to
> generate offline.
>
> A useful thing is a "globaldefinitions.ent" file that holds global
> variables. For example:
> <!ENTITY srv_uri "http://www.myserver.com>
> <!ENTITY img_uri "&srv_uri;/images">
> etc....
> Then you just need to reference the entity: <img
> src="&img_uri;/myimage.gif"/>
>
> We are only doing 4th generation-browser-compatible sites. We make use of
> CSS. We check with JavaScript whether the client machine is MacIE5,
> (otherwise) Mac, or Win32 and give an appropriate stylesheet (unix/linux
> gets basic, default everything).
>
> thanks for starting the thread,
> Rob
>
>


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