Re: [Wyonacms-dev] Example comments

Dear Alex

I will comment your comments below

Alex McLintock wrote:

> Here are my comments on the other sample publications...
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> It is based upon my test installation http://www.owal.co.uk:8080/wyona-cms/
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> Alex
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> == unipublic ==
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> Unipublic does not appear to be a functioning demo in the sense that you 
> can't submit and approve new articles.
> However it does demonstrate a wide variety of example xml documents and 
> xsl stylesheets whcih could be used. Unfortunately because this example 
> is largely in German I had difficulty following it.


This is actually the publication we get paid for at the moment.
So it should progress a lot and will be the most complete publication
in the near future. The reason that you don't see that much progress at 
the moment is, that we are currently mainly working on the CMS components:

Edith: Revision Controller
Christian: Scheduler
Michael: Publisher and Editor Interfaces


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> == New Wyona Times ==
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> This looks like a nice simple news website and so should be a nice and 
> simple example.
> Except, I can't seem to do anything other than publish articles or view 
> the xml for them. Hmmmm.


We have mostly experience with Newspapers, because "NZZ Online" 
(http://www.nzz.ch) is powered by XPS (the former Wyona), but "Neue 
Zurcher Zeitung" didn't allow us to publish their XML and XSLT. So I 
created NWT, but didn't have time yet to finish it. But there are some
nice features in there: NewsML, NITF, XInclude, and the "New York Times" 
layout is hidden somewhere as XSLT (you might find out:-)



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> == OSCOM ==
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> This seems to be a minimal example with just one page only


This is the XML and XSLT behind OSCOM: http://www.oscom.org
You might check out the interop project we will start there:
http://www.oscom.org/projects/interop/interop.jpg


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> == Forum ==
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> This example is inspired by Slashcode and is one of the most recent 
> examples and so perhaps the least developed.
> We can create new articles using the Wyona facilities but I can't seem 
> to edit them, or publish them.


We just connected Xopus yet (http://www.xopus.org), which is NOT 
available as Open Source yet,
but I will also connect the HTML Form editor as soon as possible.
I think the "Slashdot" publication has really a great potential.
My idea is to write a "Getting started guide" on how to change the
layout (logo, color, etc.) such that people can deploy on their own
websites as soon as it is a more complete publication.


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> == The Information Architect ==
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> Dunno what this is supposed to tell us as it only has a couple of pages 
> in the live view and the administrator view.



Well, that's very personal, because I am interested in "Information 
Architecture". A friend of mine and I did some nice graphics for
the "unipublic" publication. I will include within the next week.
I just have to minimize them a bit actually.  But I need a lot of trial 
and error:-)

All the best

Michael


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