On 09 Jun 2005, at 15:26, Mark Leicester wrote:
I don't really want to define a global structure a priori because I expect each documentation writer will have their own view of how documentation should be organised.
And we now have a system which accommodates this. I was planning to write an email today about how to best tackle document organization and classification with our new documentation system, but plans changed when the youngest women in my life decided against them.
As you might or might not know, you can have as many sites alongside each other if you want, each of them exposing a different hierarchy but using the same content.
A "site" is simply a combination of a navtree (of which there can be many, and you can even include them into each other) and a default collection which is used to restrict searches and to indicate in which collection new documents are stored: http://cocoondev.org/daisydocs-1_3/daisywiki/general/23.html
So I'd advise not to focus on structure upfront (as you indicate yourself already), but on Document Types, more specifically: metadata - http://cocoondev.org/daisydocs-1_3/repository/general/17.html is quite relevant in this respect.
I'll come back to this when the mother of that young women gets home and I can finally get to work. ;)
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