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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:01:45 -0400
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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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