Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Now we have that nice thing called OpenOffice that is a wordprocessor storing its content as XML in a zip archive. We've used it as a front-end for a CMS, providing template documents with style sheets that have to be used. These styles match the structure of the target XML document that is produced from the OO file. This solution just rocks, as anybody (even a boss :-) is able to write content in a userfriendly and productive environment with spell checking, typing completion, etc etc. On the CMS side, the sxw archive is exploded, the XML content is transformed into the target markup (e.g. DocBook) and images are stored.
Sure, for the Cocoon docs, we cannot wait to have a CMS setup and ready, or we'll never have docs ;-) What is rather simple, however, is to have some offline processing (based on the CLI) that would do the exploding/recomposition job to allow editing Cocoon docs with a real wordprocessor.
It would be simplier to store docs in sxw file itself; no recomposition is necessary, and html/pdf publishing out of sxw "repository" can be added to forrest.
Vadim
