Posted by Lyle Troxell
Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:07:00 GMT
Editing XML is Hard… mText
In part one of Building GeekSpeak.org I explained that we have a content management system that uses a layer of XML. But hand editing XML is a pain. HTML, generally a form of XML, is also kinda difficult to edit by hand, that’s why the blog world has adopted markup. A comon form of this sort of markup, which I use in this blog, is Textile. Generally this allows a user to use a simple text format that is translated to html. Miles Elam whipped out some Java and made mText, a markup that transforms to our SimpleDoc xml format.
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Posted by Lyle Troxell
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:16:00 GMT
For GeekSpeak each show page has a title, an abstract with teaser, and content. The content is optional and we normally use it to add information about the show: guest bio, news links, questions and answers, and other things addressed durring the show. For a while now I have wanted to add comments so that multiple people can add content at the same time. This would mostly take place durring the show.
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Posted by Lyle Troxell
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:52:00 GMT
In 1999 Sean Cleveland and I launched a little online magazine called PCExtreimist.com. The same week that it launched I started wworking for a Radio-Station website company, Feed the Monster, where I met Miles Elam. XML was the cats meow then, and Miles and I saw it’s “perfection” esp in the separation of content from layout/design. Feed the Monster was all about good design and shared content about the music industry… great looking, high-profile, radio station websites with shared content. The company tanked. Content Management is hard.
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