Forwarding to krysalis-jakarta-adv list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alex McLintock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: cocoon & docbook online
> 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]> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
