Please write an example on the page, not just throw the XML file doing something as simple as <consultant> <company>Your company</company> <address>foo street at disneyland</address> <website>http://www.yourcompany.com</website> </consultant>
Would go a long way, the instructions look a bit too technical for regular users. Even if we assume this are technical people, we should think this is being applied by the marketing intern used to facebook. I would even suggest doing an XForm to generate this XML and spew it on a texboard with a copy-paste this on your email. Specially consider the speciality would be all over the place as a freeform XML. On 10/14/12, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I now have sent an invitation to 41 companies relating to an entry in the >> directory: >> http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html >> >> And I got the first reply: >> >> ---------------- >>> Listings must be submitted to the ooo-dev mailing list as patches to the >>> file consultants.xml >> > >> >> nicht Ihr Ernst, oder? >> ---------------- >> >> No problem in this individual case, because I offered my personal help, >> but I think it may seem too complicated for some users even having to >> create an XML file. >> >> What can we do? >> >> For example, i could write a macro for AOO with an input dialog, which >> simplifies the creation of the XML file. But I need a few days time. >> >> Hints? >> > > This is covered in the instructions here: > > "If you are not familiar with XML, please submit the equivalent > information in a post to the ooo-dev list and we can help you format > it for submission. But your listing will appear faster if it is > submitted in the proper form." > > Reference: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultant-submission.html > > A form with Javascript to form the XML might be useful sometime, but > it is possible that the XML schema might change based on feedback we > receive during this initial phase of submissions. So it might be > better to wait. > > -Rob > > >> >> >> Greetings, >> Jörg >> > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
