All, With The OyaP Networks I am trying to build a small team of Oracle RDBMS & OLAP specialist, so that is where our main focus is, but Oracle also provides a lot of JAVA/XML support and hence our years of additional JAVA & XML work.
Why XML, when supporting customers we need access to a lot of information, things that you just need to write down somewhere - little tips etc. So with an XML based site we can modify, publish and find our information with ease. We could use Oracle 9iAS for the XML publishing intead of cocoon but as our focus is on the database side not applications and that the 9iAS is very "heavy" we are tending towards cocoon as the final solution. ...We are currently putting together our cocoon site which will include FAQ's to technology like cocoon and XML. My main concern at this time is the lack of control over XML, there are bodies such as OASIS who are trying to publish XML/XSL items but in my view failing to provide the correct level of information. One of my main objections is the "comment information" all over DTD documents - I think they missed the point here!!! the information about the DTD or XSL or even XML should be in an XML header type format and NOT comment data in the document. If there was a standard header then we could find required types of DTD or XSL documents easy. With cocoon our web site will be generated around the "docbook" XML format and I am hoping to have online editing of the XML data via cocoon so that articles etc can be modified and addedto the site without going to the OS. Why docbook, because it is there and seems generally to encompass most of what we would ever need for XML based publishing. The only thing that is missing is a good set of XSL standards for docbook and any editors that can be used easily to produce a docbook( I have seen some but they are not that useful, have not had time to look at "thot" yet but still would like a web based editor via cocoon. ... so we could have a directory structre that makes up chapters for a docbook,each chapter covers a different area of technology (RDBMS, OLAP.... XML... DTD... and on). The if you need to browse this online as HTML you can ... or PDF etc. We could even give the docbook XML data to a publisher and they could produce the BOOK!! So those are my thoughts on XML cocoon and web sites, who is crazy enought to help? Paul Alex McLintock wrote: > Hello Paul, > > We are collating a list of European companies willing to support Open > Source Software (including Cocoon). > Can we have some info on your company to put in the catalogue? > > We are doing some Cocoon sites too. > > Alex McLintock > http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ > > >> Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm >> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:15:54 +0100 >> From: Paul Gilligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> I am based in the UK, no too far - my company is developing XML >> publishing on cocoon 2.1 dev at the >> moment just working out the XSL side should have things up and >> running in the comming weeks.. >> >> We are very interested in meeting up with other EU companies on the >> development front. >> >> Paul >> >> Cederic Van Herreweghe wrote: >> > > > > Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites > http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ > Free Consultancy for London Companies thinking of Open Source Software. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
