This is an interesting idea. I will give it some thought, but since I do not have much time now, do not expect a quick reply. I will try to get some idea of the structure you have in mind; that is most important. What is the difference between soups and desserts in your FAQ? You have an item recipe, but not an item describing what you want to achieve (in a FAQ, the Question). You call it a FAQ, but you use the metaphor of a cookbook. This suggests more a HOWTO. It makes some difference I guess. Simon On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:32:20PM +0100, Hraban wrote:

Ahoi eXperts!

I'd like to start another attempt for a ConTeXt-FAQ-o-matic. I'm too busy and too less able to do the whole work myself, so I'd be glad if the appropriate experts would take their part.

We need... 1. a definition (Schema?) for the XML source 2. conversion patterns for ConTeXt (environment) and XHTML (XSLT?) 3. a web surface (with search engine, web edit form etc.) 4. last not least lots of entries

I'd try to coordinate the whole project, will host the site, could care for 3 and help with the other, but first someone must take responsibility for 1 and 2. Any volunteers?

Some requirements of the definition (1): - one XML file can contain all entries - an other file will contain redundant information like authors - each entry may contain several languages (I'd like to keep the door open for partly translations; I imagine that a web user sees his favourite language if available) - entry IDs must be in some way, that user contributions (files with several entries or corrections) can join in. - markup possibilities like WikiWeb (emphasis, enumeration, easy table, link) - proper code markup (e.g. for TeX, ConTeXt, shell, perl code) - additional (normally invisible) keywords for search engine (web) or index (TeX) - some flexible subject/subsubject structure - some versioning (also like WikiWeb: each user may change every entry, but an admin must be able to undo it) - someone suggested to use a DocBook subset; don't know if that's possible

Requirement of the conversion (2): - easily adaptable to a new layout (web or print) - additional software must be open source and run on Debian Linux (SPARC) (web server) and MacOS X (my machine)

Is anything of the above impossible?

I suppose (1) will result in something like

cookbook soups recipe id=hr-1 language lang=en original=yes title /title keywords /keywords ingredients item /item item /item /ingredients preparation much text with markup and code snippets /preparation /language language lang=de original=no title /title /language /recipe /soups desserts /desserts /cookbook

Greets hoping for feedback and helping hands: Hraban. -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:32:20 +0100 Hraban wrote:

Ahoi eXperts!

I'd like to start another attempt for a ConTeXt-FAQ-o-matic.

We need... 1. a definition (Schema?) for the XML source 2. conversion patterns for ConTeXt (environment) and XHTML (XSLT?) 3. a web surface (with search engine, web edit form etc.) 4. last not least lots of entries

as already said; i have collected about 150 QAs. Give me 1. and i start with 4. Best, Jens

Hraban writes: Hello Henning,

I'd like to start another attempt for a ConTeXt-FAQ-o-matic. I'm too busy and too less able to do the whole work myself, so I'd be glad if the appropriate experts would take their part.

I'd like to collect the fruits from the effort: Feature request: get an extract from the (faq-o-matic) xml-file for exactly one command in a language via http request. So I can format the xml file on the local computer. That would be an interesting feature for my etexshow, which already has commenting support in the latest release. Patrick