Greetings! On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 03:58, Alan Knowles wrote: > As far as XML:/XSLT, I can see that enterprise customers (eg. 100+ > employees) may see some advantage in going to XML(for some projects), > but I wonder if the complexity of XML publishing is really worth the > effort in *most* cases.. Its a bit like killing a fly with a missile...
I agree with you here in that for most organizations plain HTML is more than enough. Incidentally, this is where Midgard's sweet spot has traditionally been. However, there is quite much material that requires the structuring that XML provides. One example is technical documentation. For example, I think it is a big shame that we can't produce the Midgard Manual in native Midgard environment. The XML approach I proposed would solve this, and provide a nice editing interface on top of it. > I guess the approach I've got at the moment is based on the fact that > people like publishing using ftp+dreamweaver, and would not be adverse > to webdav+dreamweaver + a simple management interface.. (or mozilla + > webdav).. Agreed. However, I think we have two separate audiences here. WebDAV is great for site developers (think coding Midgard in Emacs) and document publishing. What most site maintainers want instead of the webdav+dreamweaver approach, though is easy web-based interface for publishing news on their site. For this we need web-based WYSIWYG interfaces like Nadmin/Aegir and the Bitflux Editor. Don't take this wrong. I think that WebDAV would be a really major step forward for Midgard. It would make developing Midgard applications much easier than it now is, and free us from the HTML textarea coding hell. > I'm still working through the webdav object apis (which are modeled > around midgard objects), so producing a midgard webdav server from it > should not be that complex. ...which is a very interesting project. I got your development files but didn't yet find the time to dig through them thoroughly enough to understand the design of the implementation. Before a generic Midgard WebDAV server is available,I'd love to make a more limited experiment of the thing in implementing WebDAV support in DocStore. Would you like to provide pointers for this? > Alan /Bergie -- Henri Bergius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consultant Partner Tel: +358-20-198 6032 Nemein Oy http://www.nemein.com/ OSCOM - Open Source Content Management Conference September 25th - 27th 2002, Berkeley, California http://www.oscom.org/conferences/berkeley2002/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
