On 10/14/12, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: >> On 10/14/12, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> >>> wrote: >>>> Please write an example on the page, not just throw the XML file doing >>>> something as simple as >>>> <consultant> >>>> <company>Your company</company> >>>> <address>foo street at disneyland</address> >>>> <website>http://www.yourcompany.com</website> >>>> </consultant> >>>> >>> >>> There is an entire file of real examples linked to from that page: >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/bizdev/consultants/consultants.xml >> >> My point exactly. I would rather see this shown as HTML/ASCII, the XML >> dump is not bad but usually end up in hard to read spew of data that >> non-technical users can't understand what happened. >> >>> >>>> Would go a long way, the instructions look a bit too technical for >>>> regular users. Even if we assume this are technical people, we should >>>> think this is being applied by the marketing intern used to facebook. >>>> >>>> I would even suggest doing an XForm to generate this XML and spew it >>>> on a texboard with a copy-paste this on your email. >>>> >>> >>> Patches are welcome. >> >> Here is an XForm sample: >> <xforms> >> <model> >> <instance> >> <person> >> <fname/> >> <lname/> >> </person> >> </instance> >> <submission id="form1" >> action="submit.asp" >> method="get"/> >> </model> >> <input ref="fname"><label>First Name</label></input> >> <input ref="lname"><label>Last Name</label></input> >> <submit submission="form1"><label>Submit</label></submit> >> </xforms> >> > > The form is the easy part. The hard part is getting it integrated in > a way that works with our current server environment. As you've > probably noticed we don't have mail-in forms anywhere on our website. > Perhaps there are some security issues here? Infra would know. But > there would be some work to either enable the server-side processing > of this, or of generating the XML with instructions for the user to > copy/paste it into an email to ooo-dev. > > Personally I don't think the expected volume of submissions justifies > the time required to put further automation into play. (My personal > opinion). As the instructions say, the submittor can just send > equivalent information to the list and we can do the XML formatting > for them.
Ok the original proposal was that it will dump the data in a texbox (Javascript can do this as opposed to the submit.asp). Just to pre-format his entry, user can then paste it on an email. And if no automation is necessary then I think it should be the first thing said, like this: Please submit the information to our ooo-dev mailing list: - Company name - Country code [1] - Address - URL -Specialities: [2] 1 - see our ISO compliant country listing 2 - see our list of specialties The rest of the information like XML, XSD, etc, should be put as complementary information. > > -Rob > >>> >>>> Specially consider the speciality would be all over the place as a >>>> freeform XML. >>>> >>> >>> In the current form it is restricted to enumerated values. This list >> >> Oh there is a form, I most have missed that. >> >>> can expand on request, but I'd like to not have it be freeform so it >>> can be used as a categorization field. The <description> field is the >>> freeform field, where they can put anything relevant. >>> >>>> On 10/14/12, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> I now have sent an invitation to 41 companies relating to an entry in >>>>>> the >>>>>> directory: >>>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html >>>>>> >>>>>> And I got the first reply: >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------------- >>>>>>> Listings must be submitted to the ooo-dev mailing list as patches to >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> file consultants.xml >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>> nicht Ihr Ernst, oder? >>>>>> ---------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> No problem in this individual case, because I offered my personal >>>>>> help, >>>>>> but I think it may seem too complicated for some users even having to >>>>>> create an XML file. >>>>>> >>>>>> What can we do? >>>>>> >>>>>> For example, i could write a macro for AOO with an input dialog, >>>>>> which >>>>>> simplifies the creation of the XML file. But I need a few days time. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hints? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This is covered in the instructions here: >>>>> >>>>> "If you are not familiar with XML, please submit the equivalent >>>>> information in a post to the ooo-dev list and we can help you format >>>>> it for submission. But your listing will appear faster if it is >>>>> submitted in the proper form." >>>>> >>>>> Reference: >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultant-submission.html >>>>> >>>>> A form with Javascript to form the XML might be useful sometime, but >>>>> it is possible that the XML schema might change based on feedback we >>>>> receive during this initial phase of submissions. So it might be >>>>> better to wait. >>>>> >>>>> -Rob >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Greetings, >>>>>> Jörg >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alexandro Colorado >>>> PPMC Apache OpenOffice >>>> http://es.openoffice.org >>> >> >> >> -- >> Alexandro Colorado >> PPMC Apache OpenOffice >> http://es.openoffice.org > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
