I've been looking over the suggestions, and they seem to be pretty much what I was looking for.
I understand now why someone suggested XHTML. However, there is way too much styling possible in XHTML. I need a content format that somewhat encourages authors not to put style elements such as font or hr in their content.
It seems that the Maven xdoc format and the Cocoon document-10 format have a lot in common. Cocoon has a <header/> element while xdoc puts header content in the document root outside of the <body/>. Cocoon has <s1/> through <s4/>, xdoc has <section/> and <subsection/>.
DITA looks fascinating. So far it looks like everything I might want. It is a lot to absorb, but I'll ping the list back after I absorb some of it.
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Steve Crossan wrote:
How about the xdoc format used by Maven and Anakia ?
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site-tags.html
Steve
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Alex Romayev wrote:
I haven't seen/used any standardised page layout formats. I'm using Cocoon's portal framework and I like/use their idea of spliting the page into independent coplets (sometimes known as portlets). I know it's not much, but it's a good start and I'm actually enjoying some nice benefits. What I've also done was to make heavy use of CSS2, so that the look and positioning of each coplet can be controlled externally.
-Alex
--- Tony Collen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
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What format do seasoned Cocoon people use torepresent web content?
That is, when the choice isn't made for thembecause of pre-existing
content.
XHTML, of course. At least, when I'm writing suff that will probably just go on the web. Either that, or I'll invent my own DTD on the fly.
With respect to document-1.0, that's the format the current Cocoon documents are in right now.
Tony
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