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From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@slive.ca>
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Subject: RE: First cut at a redesign for httpd.apache.org
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:33:45 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James A Sutherland [mailto:jas88@cam.ac.uk]
> > The XML is very simple and includes only the content of the page without
> > extra formating information or the side menu.  The transformation is
> > necessary so that we can alter the look and feel of multiple
> pages on the
> > site without having to edit every single html page.
>
> All of which can be done using a combination of CSS and SSI: mark your
> headings with <h1> and your paragraphs with <p> and that's it. (I'm using
> inline style="..."  rather than a style sheet, which makes the
> <h1> tags a
> little nastier-looking, but helps Netscape 4 rendering.)

Sure, but it is much less flexible than the system we have in place.  Take a
look
at http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/site/ and see how nice and simple the
xml is.  This allows us in the future to make arbitrary changes to the
look/feel/structure of the site without touching the source files.  From an
xml source there are also lots of choices for the transformation
(xsl,anakia,etc), so we are not locked into a particular tool.

I have done sites with extensive SSI, and I have to say that xml
transformations seem to be much cleaner and more flexible.

Joshua.


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