I would probably try to create my content in XML and create an application that auto-chunks this content. Documentum 5 does have facilities for this, but the current WCM product (sounds like you are web-based) is not released on this platform yet.
Good luck! -- dave -----Original Message----- From: Adam Fields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:50 AM To: Austin, Darrel Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subject: Re: [cms-list] Preserving pagination in a CMS On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:27:00AM -0600, Austin, Darrel wrote: > One bit of content we are planning on disseminating via a CMS has an > unusual > restriction: the pagination must be preserved. > > These are documents that ultimately need to be searchable, viewable, > parsable, but also retain a specic pagination scheme for proper > citations. For instance, the document, itself, may cite another page > of the document, and other documents need to cite specific pages of > other documents. > > The easy solution is to just publish them as PDFs, but that just > doesn't seem to be the elegant solution in my mind. Is there way to > store structured content in a way that also retains the page structure > of the original typed paper document? Or would PDF be the way to go? Setting aside the question of whether page citations themselves are an outmoded mechanism, I see no reason why you couldn't break your content up into blocks and then maintain an index of which blocks represent which pages in which documents. Offhand, I know of no packaged CMS that does this. It raises some other questions - are you going to allow people to edit the content online and backfill to some print publication while maintaining a page numbering scheme, or are they read-only from the CMS perspective? The former would be much more difficult, but not impossible. Alternatively, you might want to design this in such a way as to have some online indexing scheme (section hierarchy, or something similar) that is translated to specific page numbers for offline purposes. Abstraction is your friend here. -- - Adam ----- Adam Fields, Managing Partner, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surgam, Inc. is a technology consulting firm with strong background in delivering scalable and robust enterprise web and IT applications. http://www.adamfields.com -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
