RE: Beginners questions about Xaraya

Check out http://www.drewvogel.com/XarDB. I've added "An Overview of Xaraya"
to it, and culled the information from the replies. Also note that those
that contributed information have been mentioned in "Document Thanks".

-andrew vogel
Manager of Professional Programs
University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: SpiritTech [mailto:greg-7AJS2N3YFopQWC9lL0RKGQC/[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:44 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Xaraya_docs] Beginners questions about Xaraya
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've recently discovered Xaraya and managed to install it ok. 
> I see that 
> it has a wopping 300+K text file documentation which is quite 
> impressive 
> which is currently work in progress. Unfortunately its a little bit 
> sparse on basics for an absolute beginner such as myself, so 
> I'm hoping 
> that you guys can answer some questions for the docs to make 
> some sense 
> to me.
> 
> 
> 1 What are the basic bulding blocks of Xaraya? How do they 
> interopperate?
> 
> 2 What is a Template?
> 
> 3 What is a Publication Type?
> 
> 4 Are Templates and Publication Types related? How?
> 
> 5 How are artilces sorted into sections/catagores/topics?
> 
> 6 How, and by what, are articles displayed?
> 
> 7 What do Catagories do? Are they the only way of sorting articles or 
> just an example?
> 
> 8 Do articles need to be sorted into a simple heirarchy or 
> can they be 
> sorted into a multidimensional aray with each article fitting into 
> several independent heirarchies simultaneously or using 
> catagory flags 
> instead of a heirarchy at all?
> 
> 9 Are there any other basics I need to know about?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for all your help :-)
> 
> SpiritTech
> 
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