On Sunday August 28 2005 12:18 pm, Tim Williams wrote: > I've been exploring the XPathDirectory Generator lately to actually > *use* the document metadata for driving a site. Our doctype supports > metadata but we don't (so far as I can tell) actively use the > metadata. I'm exploring this in terms of a webblog use-case. I'm not > so interested in using forrest as a blog publisher as I am in the more > generic metadata driven site problem. I'm doing it via a plugin > locally. So I'll describe it here and if anyone is interested in this > type of problem, then I'll put what I'm doing in the whiteboard? ... snip the good stuff ...
> Other use-cases I've thought of are: > o) Product catalogs where each product might belong to more than one > category. o) Product documentation where each document may apply to more > than one version of the product. > o) News site where each article might fall under more than one category. > > Others might be already doing this stuff but I recently discovered the > power of xpathdirectory generator and it's caused me to explore it a > little. > > I'm interested in hearing if anyone's already doing this sort of thing > and whether it's generally interesting or just peculiar to me. > --tim I don't know if anyone is doing anything with this but I do find the feature very interesting and useful. I could definitely use it for my use case at work where we are putting all documentation in one central location broken down by category and I can see several things already that could/should be in several categories. I'm kinda slow and not very well versed but I'd be willing to help where I could as this is something I would definitely use. - Addi
