Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
hepabolu wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
However, as Vadim said (in another mail in this thread) we have to be
careful not to break current links and search engine indexing. This
can be done by forcing the rewriting of links to mirror the existing
structure, but that assumes the existing structure is good. I don't
think it is, some of the stuff in user docs, for example, is valuable
to developers and vice versa.
An alternative would be to create a set of rewrites to maintain the
existing links.
Both opinions are valid IMO: we need "fixed" URLs so we can point to
them, but the current structure is also not very good/rather outdated.
My proposal is: keep the current docs, aka legacydocs in Daisy, as
much "backward compatible" as possible. This will be all the Cocoon
2.1.X documentation we have.
Once we start releasing Cocoon 2.2 the 2.1 docs will be "frozen", i.e.
the current state of cocoon.apache.org is "archived" (available but
not in the loop for automatic updates like 2.0) and all documentation
effort will be geared towards 2.2. If this means all links are
numerical, so be it, as long as the same number keeps pointing to the
same page over time.
WDYT?
Is there a way to have non-numerical URL in daisy?
Yes, and no.
Daisy completely separates the front-end application (the daisy-wiki)
from the back-end repository.
In the repository it is only possible to have numerical document IDs.
However, in the daisy-wiki it is possible to create non-numerical Id's
for pages. In fact, it is possible for a single page in the repository
to have multiple non-numerical ids. These are defined in the navigation
documents.
So, to reproduce a non-numerical URL space you must retrieve the content
via the daisy-wiki or you must use the navigation document to lookup the
non-numerical ID (knowing which one to use can be a problem, depending
on how the Daisy docs are set up).
Using Forrest, the answer would be to create a Locationmap from the
navigation document, thus mapping non-numeric client URLs to repository
numeric ids (which is essentially what the daisy-wiki does).
Ross
