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Technical Specs

Each of various technical areas should have their own page or pages:

• HTML portal design (HTML/CSS)
  see User Interface Design
  • wireframes
  • XSLT stylesheets targeting wireframe design
  • process outline and toolkit(s)
• Other publication formats
  • PDF (OEB etc.)
• XML core model
  • tag set and docs
    • DHQauthor Schema
    • check out the Schema Requirements for an overview
  • tools and tools configuration
    • check out the SkunkWorks
• backup routines and regimens
• archiving model (provisional)

Citing XML

Here's a test: if I write

What do you see? (HTML browsers ignore tags they don't understand. Seeing nothing shows that we can't cite arbitrary XML in line. It has to be escaped somehow.)

What if I write

<tag></tag>

Do you see anything then? (< escaped as &lt;)

What if I write

]]>

Do you see anything then? (CDATA marked section)

This is relevant for knowing how to write code in this wiki.

This wiki isn't XML or HTML conformant: it doesn't respect <![CDATA[ ]]> marked sections. In order to include arbitrary XML to display in this wiki, one apparently has to escape < characters. More's the pity.

This has consequences: it makes it lamentably difficult to maintain XML on the wiki. One has constantly to be escaping it and unescaping it, or text is likely to go

So the wiki is for to-do lists, draft copy and other things that don't require we display verbatim XML. Unless we can figure some way other than cut and paste (which has many virtues, including obviousness and visibility) to move around XML snippets ... or how to get the wiki to conform to specs for CDATA?

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