ZvonWeb

The goal of this project is creation of a free publishing environment. It should support parallel development, sharing of ideas, consistency checks, publishing in several formats (html, xml, paper, ...).

Targets

  1. Create a robust site management system
  2. Make accessible the guts of the Zvon site
  3. Free publishing system


TARGET: Create a robust site management system

Tasks

  1. Simple and robust management of internal links
  2. Easy concurent publication in several languages

Task: Simple and robust management of internal links

The site should be eventually maintained by a group of co-workers. It is therefore very important to keep link management very simple but at the same time extremely robust.


Task: Easy concurent publication in several languages

While many people can read English, it is not a universal language . As the main target of Zvon is free exchange of information, it would be very unfortunate, if language problems would become a limiting factor.

Problem: Encoding of non-English characters

Description: Currently used encodings does not contain enough characters to support several languages. Unicode character set solves the problem, as XML tools are required to support UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings and these encodings support all viable languages. Unfortunately, most tools currently does not support UTF-8. A convertor to and from unicode is therefore needed.

Solution: Java v.1.1 contains functions, which enable very easy transforms between different encodings. A simple program named convert has been written in Java, which makes conversions between tens of different encodings.

Problem Related LinksLang
Program convert
UNICODE homepage
Czech language on the Internet cs cs


TARGET: Make accessible the guts of the Zvon site

Zvon homesite is based on XML, it uses XSL for transformations and some techniques, which could be of interest. XML and especially XSL are new standards (XSL actually is not in the stage of recommendation yet). The resources which interested people can use are therefore scarce. A real life example of web site administration using these novel techniques is therefore of interest

Tasks

  1. Make accessible source, DTD and XSL for individual pages
  2. Write an article describing how the site is maintained

Task: Make accessible source, DTD and XSL for individual pages

Problem: Everything should be easily accessible

Description: To make the site really useful as an educational resource, all sources should be easily accessible.

Solution: Combination of XSL and Perl scripting automatically generates relevant html files and links, which appear at the bottom of the page.


Task: Write an article describing how the site is maintained

I am working on it.

Task Related LinksLang
Current draft


TARGET: Free publishing system

Many freeware programs exist which make plausible creation of free publishing system. Unfortunately, at this moment only experience computer users can take us of them. They are distributed in many places, sometimes a bit tricky to install and start running. We will assemble individual programs into packages with simple instalation so that anybody will be able to download a package and experiment with features offered by XML and other technologies.

Tasks

  1. Write or translate manuals and tutorials.

Task: Write or translate manuals and tutorials.

There is need for simple tutorials which would help get people running.

Task Related LinksLang
How to use HTML Kit as XML editor cs cs

HOMEID: zvon19990617161400163RECENT_PAGES
Editor: Miloslav Nič [MNaaaa]Vytvořeno: 17.6.1999Poslední změna: 23.6.1999
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Prosba o pomocPoznámkyAdministrace stránekXMLDTDXSL

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