Hmmm, never got that reply... That's really cool. I've done a lot with XML as a data source but have never really taken the opportunity to learn about XSL. I'm starting to learn about it now because Kodak Prinergy uses it for their e-mail templates and some other features.
>From what I've seen I think you could turn a Scribus document into a HTML form with a XSL stylesheet and then submit the changes to a script that could output a new Scribus document containing the changes. I've done that to a certain extent with a PHP script that I've been playing with. The schema definition will help as a documentation tool for the Scribus format, that could allow me to build a PHP class for manipulation of Scribus documents. The XSL would also allow you to translate the Scribus doc to display it in a web page, sort of a Scribus viewer plug-in for the web. The most efficent way to do that most likely would be to create a schema that translate Scribus objects to SVG objects. Then create a XSL to display the Scribus doc. The combination of these technologies of course could lead to a web-based version of Scribus. This is very exciting indeed! -Tim On 3/2/08 4:14 AM, "Pierre Marchand" <capparis at free.fr> wrote: > Vous avez ?crit?: > Hi Timothy, > > I'm currently writing my diploma thesis > about a print publishing > solution with Scribus. So far I've created xsl > stylesheets to create a > Scribus document from DocBook XML and to syncronise > the data between > DocBook and Scribus (so far only in one direction). > Furthermore I've > created a XML Schema definition for the Scribus 1.3.5 file > format to > validate and test the stylesheets. > > Because I want to use Plone > (Python based CMS), I've create a Python > egg, that contains these > stylesheets. You can download the egg in the > python cheeseshop: > > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docbook2sla/ > > Last year I wrote a proposal for > GSoC 2007 about my idea: > > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Draft_of_end-to-end_publishing_solution#U >s > e_Case_.233_Publishing_Workflow_for_Magazine_Layout_.28Timo_Stollenwerk.29 > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Draft_for_the_GSoC_Application_Abstract_% >2 > 8Timo_Stollenwerk%29 > > If you're interested, I can send you an expos? I > wrote about my ideas. > > I'm going to document my efforts on this > website: > > http://scribus.zmag.de/ > > Regards, > timo Wow! I think we?re a > lot around to be very interested. If you can expose your ideas and how it > works for a larger range of persons, I think you?ll be carefully listened (at > least by me :-) ). For myself, I would be interested to know how far away > from a stand-alone componment is this implementation. -- Pierre > Marchand _______________________________________________ Scribus mailing > list Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo > /scribus
