houghi wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:15:40AM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Unfortunately my knowledge of XML (and using it) is very limited. I would very much talk to people about this on FOSDEM and see what can do what and how. If I would have had more knowledge, I would have had a working example. Sure, we'll find some time to discuss that during FOSDEM. I'm pretty experienced with XSLT, I'm sure I can contribute something to the idea ;)
Could you make a few slides about it to introduce the topic during the speed talks ?
Are there default slides? I think two or three slides should be enough. I just need to put in some basic ideas and potentials. When, where and how should they presented or send to?
3-4 slides would be enough, just to introduce the topic and to discuss it afterwards. Everyone present in the devroom won't have the background. It's just an introduction on the topic, keep it very short. Just lay out what you want to achieve, show a sample from the XML file, something like that. It's just that although there's also a blackboard in the devroom, it's much more convenient to make a few slides to show on the video projector. No need to send in the slides anywhere, take it with you on an USB key, or ask Christoph (cthiel) whether you can send it to him before the event so he can preload it on the laptop that will be used for the other presentations (or one of the laptops that...).
We'll fork a short BOF from that, with some people interested in the topic (count me in). BOF?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoF "The acronym is predominantly used by computer geeks at gatherings such as industry conferences to describe a meeting in which a topic of specific interest is discussed. Such meetings are refered to as Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings, or simply as BoFs." (ok, citing wikipedia puts my mail under GFDL ;))
Yes, and - - we could write a schema to validate the XML against it - - maybe it has the potential to cross (open)SUSE boundaries ;) - - use XSL transformations to generate static HTML or plain text from the XML file, or some "dynamic" page(s) with PHP, JSP, JavaScript, whatever, feeding a database, generate PHP arrays, ... - the point being that from a single source, one can transform it into various other formats
As soon as the xml file is available, you can do whatever you like with it. The "only" thing we need to do is make the file. :-)
Indeed.
Definitely a very good idea, with a lot of potential. BTW, sorry I didn't get back to you about that idea, busy times atm ;)
No problem. Sorry about not figuring it all out myself and having a working model to present on FOSDEM.
np ;)
cheers
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