Geoff Deering wrote: > Can you please define "granular content" for me, and how it's collected?
<author> <givenName/> <middleInitial/> <surName/> </author> That's granular; saying "This book was written by Joe W. Blow" is not -- how does a machine pick the "author" out of that? And you collect it with forms, like any other data. > I think, in general, if you are customising scripts within an > application, and they are designed for that, then that is fine. But in > apps like IWTS you have to write many scripts in their Perl derivative > to get it to clean up a lot of stuff. If you are having to write any > new transformations that aren't part of the core app, that to me is > having to reinvent the wheel (to a very small extent). But I'm more > referring to having to write all these scripts to tie transformations > between applications together. Now I'm not sure what you mean by "transformations between applications". > Can you clarify your definition of content and document. In Web terms, "content" is what's in each (non-presentational!) element of a page: <p>, <cite>, <address>, etc. The "document" is the page as a whole. > Can you please also explain your definition of "You *build* documents > to specific targets *from* granular content"? Sure; you can take, say: <product> <product_number/> <product_line/> <short_description/> <long_description/> <long_description_dripping_with_marketing_gibberish/> </product> :: and create a document for a specific purpose from 1 or more of those elements. > What is your definition of "semantically structured"? Headings, logical divisions -- anything that shows up in Word's "outline" (I think it's called) panel. >> Sorry, I don't see it. There are "document management systems" and >> "content management systems" -- they're not the same... :-) > > They might not be the same, so what distinguishes them? Can you please > give clear definitions? A "document management system" manages documents as black-box objects; in a CMS each element is an independent object. -- Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. ********************************************************* The CMS discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *********************************************************
