On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 04:48:59PM -0800, Brian Deacon wrote: >On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:41:31AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >> Goal, develop documentation model that will easily port to SGML. >> Requirements, standard technical report type formatting, outline type >> formatting, with lots of tables. >> >> Sounds like standard html (table header, and column identifiers on top >> of each table). But there is a catch, the documents will be printed >> and on each printed page should appear the table header and column >> labels. Is there a css (media=print) tag that will put Table header and >> col identifiers on each page, like below? Any templates for this? >> >> // George > >If this is a long-term investment, then XML sounds like a better fit. >Define your own conceptual grammar for the content, and then develop a >"library" of xslt that gets you the flavor of output you want. (XSL-FO >to get you pdf's... and xsl-fo has the built-in concepts of headers, >footers, and keeping things tidy across page breaks). A much less >complicated xslt translation can get you web pages. > >But that's not a solution that you'll have by the end of the week. But >if you manage your content with a not-complicated xml grammar, and leave >the formatting to various xslt translations, you've left yourself a lot >of flexibility. And the guts could be written in $FAVORITE_LANGUAGE.
yep. already have the xslt book. ;-) // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
