On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, John R. Sheets wrote: > On Sunday, September 10, 2000, Timothy Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote: > > > > Any other DTDs that would work well for this. > > > > The possibility of using XML is attractive because I could begin to do some > > really fun things with indexing and searching old lectures, including > > multimedia bits, and other coolness. > > Have you used DocBook much? It's a fairly intuitive SGML/XML DTD geared > towards technical documents. A lot of the major open source projects > are using it (q.v., GNOME, KDE, and now Wine). I imagine it'll be > around for quite some time. It's rapidly becoming an informal standard. > Stylesheets exist (http://nwalsh.com/) to convert it to HTML, PDF, > PostScript, and probably others. Yes, DocBook is certainly first on my list of things to try. I've done some work in the SGML version, but I'll probably investigate the XML version now since it allows you to incorporate MathML. One moderately cool thing is that I could include answers and mathematical solutions to questions from my lecture right in the XML source. Then, based on what stylesheet I use, it would produce text with or without the answers. An integrated, XML-based course planning tool that allowed me to integrate all of the sorts of planning I do (e.g., unit goals, daily lectures, quizzes, test, graduation standards) would be awesome. Someday maybe I'll create one. :-) -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org