DOCBOOK: Re: website 'ideological' problems

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

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/ Bar?áth G?ábor <dincsi at elender dot hu> was heard to say:
| i want to discuss with you about the representation
| of a website. in docbook-website it has a tree structure,
| am i right?

The principle navigation structure is a tree.

| i think a website can be represented better with a graf,
| which has nodes (webpages) and edges (the links). in this
| repesentation we can descript a webpage with its content
| and the links to other webpages.

There's nothing about website that prevents (or discourages) links
between pages independent of the primary hierarchy. In fact, I do it
all the time. With olinks, even:

  <para>This area identifies
  <olink targetdocent="books.xml">books</olink>,

| semanticaly it belongs to the webpage itself, and we can
| do this to put olinks in the webpage header.
| i think this representasion is closer to the reality, than
| layout's repesented tree structure.
| what about this idea?

Go for it. One of the things that motivated website was a desire to
impose an ordered structure on the site. If you have a different
structure in mind, explore it and let us know where you end up.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>      | The average man, who does not know
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | what to do with his life, wants
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | another one which will last
                                   | forever.--Anatole France
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