Gervase Markham wrote:
> fantasai wrote:
> > Are we going to provide capabilites for people to submit in
> > DocBook? There are many in favor. Any opposed?
>
> This question presupposes that people will "submit" their content to
> someone.
Or some/thing/ (piece of software).
> Surely, given that DocBook is easily converted to HTML, the question
> is more properly "Should we host DocBook originals of HTML
> documents?", and the answer is "Sure. Why not?".
> > If not, then we need to figure out how this is going to work--
> > logistically, I mean, not technically.
Will we automate the DocBook --> HTML conversions?
Will the program/script have to be manually invoked or will it
authomatically convert when necessary?
If the latter, how does it determine when to convert?
(run a process every x minutes, trigger on changes to doc, etc.)
Where will the DocBook originals be stored--in the same directory as
the HTML version?
If so, how will the server differentiate between requests for the
two files? (Remember--we are not using filename extensions.)
If a documents is written in DocBook, should any changes to the HTML
file be reflected in the DocBook document or are we going to let that
version rot?
Will the HTML and DocBook versions be updated each separately or
will a change to one be automatically transferred to the other?
Which one gains precedence? That is, which one do we change?
If changes go first to the DocBook document, who is going
to code them in?
If changes go first to the HTML document, how will the elements
map to DocBook's more specific language?
If a series of documents is semantically one "book", should the
author write it as a single XML document or should each "chapter"
be a wholly separate document?
We /are/ using the XML dtd, right?
