Hi Timothy, I'm currently writing my diploma thesis about a print publishing solution with Scribus. So far I've created xsl stylesheets to create a Scribus document from DocBook XML and to syncronise the data between DocBook and Scribus (so far only in one direction). Furthermore I've created a XML Schema definition for the Scribus 1.3.5 file format to validate and test the stylesheets.
Because I want to use Plone (Python based CMS), I've create a Python egg, that contains these stylesheets. You can download the egg in the python cheeseshop: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docbook2sla/ Last year I wrote a proposal for GSoC 2007 about my idea: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Draft_of_end-to-end_publishing_solution#Use_Case_.233_Publishing_Workflow_for_Magazine_Layout_.28Timo_Stollenwerk.29 http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Draft_for_the_GSoC_Application_Abstract_%28Timo_Stollenwerk%29 If you're interested, I can send you an expos? I wrote about my ideas. I'm going to document my efforts on this website: http://scribus.zmag.de/ Regards, timo Timothy Boyden schrieb: > Hi All, > > I wanted to comment on and get feedback from any developers lurking on > object tag names and the associated xml elements in the 1.3.5 file format. > > I'm interested in developing a web-based tool that can manipulate > Scribus docs and their XML like file structure. I would be programming > it in PHP which has useful utilities for handling XML objects and can > make OO objects out of XML elements. Basically the application would > make use of predefined Scribus "Spec Ads" that can be customized via a > web form that changes the text of tagged text elements in Scribus docs. > Currently you can give objects a name in the properties box, but it does > not appear to actually label or "id" the associated element within the > file. For example, I create a text element and assign it the name of > "tagline" in the properties box, I would expect that when I save the > document and look at it's source code, the associated itext element > would have an attribute named "id" with a value of "tagline". This would > then allow me to in PHP to do a getElementById("tagline") and then have > an object with the property "CH" which would contain the text that I > could then manipulate. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Tim Boyden > > --------------------------- > *Timothy Boyden > */Network Administrator/ > _tboyden at supercoups.com_ <mailto:tboyden at supercoups.com> > > * * > > **SuperCoups^? * * > > *A Valassis Company* > > *350 Revolutionary Drive** | E. Taunton, MA 02718* > > *Phone: 508-977-2034 | Fax: 508-977-0290 | **www.supercoups.com > <http://www.supercoups.com/> * > > * * > > *Watch For Your Bright Blue and Yellow Envelope ? Coming Soon!* > > ^--------------------------- > > ^_^RedPlum <http://www.redplum.com/> _^ is the ultimate source of value > ? online, in your mailbox, on your doorstep, with your newspaper, and in > your store. > > ^^ > > ^^This message may include proprietary or protected information. If you > are not the intended recipient, please notify me, delete this message > and do not further communicate the information contained herein without > my express consent. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
