discuss: Converting to html
Subject:
Re: Converting to html
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
15 Aug 2002 17:40:02 -0000
Message-Id: <1029422310.8430.47.camel@mysticchild.dbsoftware.com>
Hi Saqib,
John pointed out one of the great benefits of XML.
Thanks to a great number of specific tags in DocBook XML, metadata,
indexing and searching becomes much easier. You can easily provide
statistical data on the number of occurrences of a certain tag, such as
<application></application>, or change the information with a few
keystrokes.
Also, XML can be ported to many other formats very quickly, and with few
if any changes to the original markup. With one change of a stylesheet,
you can easily change the look of the document.
It might interest you to know that by converting XML to HTML, I was able
to get one of my documents onto my Palm Pilot. It still looks like a
traditional HOWTO, but how nifty that I can read it on the device!
Also there are many XML editors out there, for both Linux and Windows
platforms, even free for Windows, although I think the Linux tools are
ten times better.
I hope some of this info helps you!
Tabatha
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 22:27, ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> Hi Dan and everyone on the LDP :),
> I saw you presentation, it is pretty good :)
>
> Here is my problem:
>
> I have to present 3 options for creating/maintaining internal IT FAQs (we
> have lots of them):
>
> 1) Use DocBook 4.1.2 XML with cocoon on the backend server; or
> 2) Use plain HTML (dreamweaver) with our existing HTML server; or
> 3) Use RDBMS to store all the QandA, and then query using XForms or PHP or
> jsp
>
> Now I wanna make a case for using XML vs the other 2 option. Any
> suggestions, on why XML would be a better option in the long run as
> compared to other 2 options?
>
> Any good pointers/hints about the pros and cons I should include in the
> presentation? I am looking of all kinds of suggestions. I am thinking I
> will have a hard time making a case againt using RDBMs. All help will be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Saqib Ali
>
>
>
> Dan York
> <dan_york@mit To: Martin WHEELER ####@####.####
> el.com> cc: Tabatha Persad ####@####.#### ldp
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> 08/12/2002
> 07:51 AM
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>
> Martin,
>
> > Particularly as I boobed over Dan's presentation -- it wasn't at
> > Debconf; it was at Ottowa; and it wasn't Debian specific at all.
> > right subject - wrong paper. Doh!
>
> Glad you caught that... :-) Yes, my paper had nothing in it specific
> to any distro, and it was actually a 3-hour tutorial given at OLS here
> in Ottawa two months ago.
>
> BTW, any comments on the tutorial are definitely welcome. Since the
> interest
> was high, I'll probably aim to give the tutorial at some other conferences.
>
> Tutorial is at:
> http://www.lodestar2.com/people/dyork/talks/2002/ols/docbook-tutorial/index.html
>
>
> Since this is not LDP-related, please don't clutter up the LDP list and
> just
> send any comments directly to me, please. ####@####.#### or
> ####@####.####
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
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