On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> >
There is an entire file of real examples linked to from that page: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/bizdev/consultants/consultants.xml > 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. > Patches are welcome. > Specially consider the speciality would be all over the place as a freeform > XML. > In the current form it is restricted to enumerated values. This list can expand on request, but I'd like to not have it be freeform so it can be used as a categorization field. The <description> field is the freeform field, where they can put anything relevant. > On 10/14/12, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jörg Schmidt <[email protected]> >> 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
