> From: Steven Noels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> > From: Piroumian Konstantin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> > > > > I propose that we split up the rather long list of
> > > committers in the
> > > > > hall of fame document into "active committers" and
> > > > "Emeritus Committers"
> > > > > like many other projects (e.g. Axis or Struts) do.
> > > >
> > > > > In addition we could add a short bio/note from each
> > > > committer as well
> > > > > or at least a link to a page containing this.
> > > > >
> > > > > What do you think?
> > > >
> > > > I think it's an excellent idea.
> > >
> > > Can we (Forrest) make a DTD for it?
> >
> > Isn't it too specific thing to have a special DTD for it? Why
> > not reuse
> > document DTD? If we create a DTD for the 'Who we are', then
> > we definitely
> > will need another DTD for the 'xml.apache.org' front-page
> > description,
> 
> the new xml.apache.org frontpage should not be too dependent on a
> manually authored XML document, but be the aggregation of a lot of
> information snippets from all the various projects. In any case, the
> frontpage will be special, i.e. perhaps we would need to create a
> separate DTD for it, too.
> 
> > a
> > third one for 'Project samples', etc.
> 
> You're absolutely right, we should be careful not to create *too* many
> different DTD's. Furthermore, a Cocoon pipeline has no access 
> to the DTD
> declaration so it can't modify processing flow depending of 
> the doctype
> of a document.

It was discussed and there were proposed several solutions to this. But is
that really needed? We can simple setup separate pipelines for different
types of documents.

> 
> > Though, if having so many formats is not contradictory to the
> > Forrest vision
> > then I am +1 for it.
> 
> We could do a simple document consisting of a table, of 
> course. Having a
> specific DTD however ensures we have a common information structure
> across all XML Apache sub-projects, which is part of the 
> Forrest vision.
> 
> In terms of a DTD, I would go for something in the lines of:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!ENTITY % document PUBLIC
>     "-//APACHE//ENTITIES Documentation V1.1//EN"
>     "document-v11.mod">
> %document;
> 
> <!ELEMENT contributors (header?, (category)+)>
> <!ATTLIST contributors %common.att;
>                            %title.att;>
> 
>     <!ELEMENT category (contributor+) >
>     <!ATTLIST category %title.att; %common.att;>
> 
>     <!ELEMENT contributor (person, img?, bio)>
>     <!ATTLIST contributor %common.att;>
> 
>         <!ELEMENT bio (%blocks;)*>
>         <!ATTLIST bio %common.att;>
> 
> validating documents similar to this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE contributors
>   PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Project Contributors V1.0" "contrib-v10.dtd">
> <contributors title="Contributors">
>   <category title="Active Committers">
>     <contributor>
>       <person name="Carsten Ziegeler" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/>
>       <bio>
>         <p>Carsten is release manager for Cocoon2, and tries to avoid
>            cutting his hands while doing so.</p>
>       </bio>
>     </contributor>
>   </category>
>   <category title="Emeritus Committers">
>     <contributor>
>       <person name="Stefano Mazzocchi" email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/>
>       <bio>
>         <p>Know what? Sometimes he wonders why he bothers keeping
> himself
>            subscribed to this mail list: you people do an incredible
>            job even without his guidance ;-)</p>
>       </bio>
>     </contributor>
>   </category>
> </contributors>
> 
> Would this make sense?

Not sure about the text, but the structure is Ok. ;)
Only I would change 'contributors' to 'developers'. (Btw, see change.xml -
it already contains the list of developers).

Konstantin


> 
> </Steven>
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