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Hi everyone,
For those of you interested in learning a bit more about XML, you might
want to check out this reference I recently came across. With further skill
development, this may be the next step in Chebucto's website development.
Cheers,
Leo
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"Content and Publishing" Webtechniques (July 2000)
(http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/07/). The feature topic of
the July 2000 issue of Webtechniques is Content and Publishing, from
which I am singling out two related articles on using XML to
facilitate content creation, management and delivery. In
"Separating Body from Soul: XML Makes Changing Easy"
(http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/07/floyd/), Michael Floyd
offers an excellent primer on how to set up an XML document delivery
system on an existing infrastructure that uses a web server as the
delivery system, a database for storing some information, XML
documents for storing other information, and seeks to serve up output
to any sort of browser. He gives an ingredient list of the basic
components: XML parser, XSL processor, document repository, a
collection of document schema, and a collection of XSL stylesheets. He
then launches into some detail in presenting three different gateways
for serving up dynamic XML pages, whether through CGI, Java Servlets
or ASP. As the title hints, by using ASP and the Rocket XML framework,
Floyd claims to do the Cartesian split one better, with the separation
of data from processing logic and HTML presentation. The article
concludes with a discussion of some packaged solutions, including
DataChannel, Vignette, StoryServer, and Poet's CMS (Content Management
Suite). Once you've transformed your infrastructure, Peter Fischer
explains how to convert all those HTML files into something that can
be served up in an XML environment in "Migrating from HTML to XML"
(http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/07/fischer/). Whether you
decide to take the intermediary step of cleaning up your HTML to
conform to the XHTML standard, or decide to take the leap right into
XML, tools are becoming more readily available to help in the
endeavor, from the freeware tools such as HTML Tidy or (the more
user-friendly) HTML-Kit for XHTML conversion, to XSpLit from
Percussion Software for XML.
Current Cites 11(6) (June 2000) ISSN: 1060-2356
Copyright 2000 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley.
All rights reserved.
Copying is permitted for noncommercial use by computerized bulletin
board/conference systems, individual scholars, and libraries.
____________________________
Leo J. Deveau
Wolfville, N.S.
__________________________
"Buy neither the moon nor the news;
soon both will be out free."
-Arab Proverb
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