On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:09:21AM -0500, Ben Young wrote: > Hey Jeff, > > I've got cocoon-2.1 CVS up and running. I'm getting ready to play with > some of the LinkRewriter stuff. I think the semantic linking will be a > huge help in certain areas of our site. I'm glad I can continue to use > the "old" relative linking too.
Actually, "indirect" linking is a better name than "semantic". Effectively, you're linking to an XPath node in an intermediate doc, rather than a specific location. > I'm still trying to figure out the cleanest way to implement all these > features into the site map. We're at a place in our site development > where what we do now will affect our predicessors positively or > negatively for a good time to come. I suppose KISS is the best approach then. For a first iteration, it might be best to forget about site: linking and concentrate on the menus. It can be added later very easily, and be made to accommodate whatever XML format you choose. Here is a diff of the sitemap changes made in Forrest, to use site.xml for both 'site:' linking and menu (book.xml) generation: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-forrest/src/resources/conf/sitemap.xmap.diff?r1=1.45&r2=1.45.2.1&diff_format=h > Since I can't bank that those who come after will be "visionaries" I > have to try and get things in place that make since and work well "by > themselves". The less of a learning curve there is the better. I'm sure > you understand. 8o) Oo.. one thing to consider when managing big URI spaces: what happens when they change? Do the old URLs just break when a page reshuffle is required? I have a vague plan on how to solve this (mark obsolete pages and generate redirects) in Forrest. > I love the concepts of the semantic web and I want to get as close to it > as possible. Currently, though, I'm surrounded with a trillion options > and trying to dig through to what exactly it is that I need to do next > in order to get there. <aside>It seems to be a long sentence day. > 8o)</aside> :) Well sounds like many of the issues are similar to Forrest's. Feel free to mail me offlist about specific stuff. --Jeff > Thanks for listening to my rant. 8o) I'll probably post some RT's in the > future about some of what I've been thinking. > > I don't know that there was a "call to action" in any of that, but any > thoughts you (or anyone else) may have would be *greatly* appreciated. > > Thanks, > Ben ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
