Ross Gardler wrote:
RG> I read that the *output* strictly separates content from presentation, RG> thereby implying that the *input* does not. Whilst some input formats RG> blur this distinction (like OOo and MS Office for example) I'm not sure RG> we can claim to take a horrible mess of an input document and create a RG> nicely separated output. yeah, but fixing that impression will confuse things even more. Saying that 'Forrest for *input* strictly separates content from presentation' is not true either. Problem here is that separate can have two different meanings: a) to keep apart b) to take apart What it should say is that 'Forrest expects and works best with input that strictly separates content from presentation', but that is way beyond our 50 words. So I' suggest to stick with the proposed version in this respect. Although, while I'm at it ... ********************************************************************** Apache Forrest is a publishing framework that transforms input from various sources into a unified presentation in one or more output formats. Its modular and extensible plugin-architecture is based on Apache Cocoon and several Web standards and strictly separates presentation from content. Forrest can generate static documents, run on an application server or be deployed by an automated publishing application. ********************************************************************** main suggestion is to replace document collection with presentation because that seems to better include menues, tabs and tocs whereas document collection reminds me a bit of a file system view. And I was so determined to keep out of this to get some work done :-) -- Ferdinand Soethe