[CLUE-Tech] many choices

[ian]

What do you want to get out of the more "complex" solution?

Do you want to have all "data" stored in an XML backend?  
If that is the case links and such will be created by doing a XSLT
tranformation on the XML file.  You would need to create your own
"informal" DTD. 

Do you want to have the entire page in a convertable format?
Do you want to be able to create PDF, print format, etc from the same
initial file that you code up?
If that's the case Dockbook SGML is good, Latex is good, even XML can
be good.  All require a learning curve to get up to speed on them but
then they are fairly useful.

If all you want is to have a presentation that is a web page with
links forward and backwards then straight HTML with CSS is more than 
enough.  However the reason all these other techs are created is to 
separate and allow more architecture and control over the different
levels of a website.  Separate content from presentation, allow a non
tech person to create content, allow a non tech person create presentation.

It all depends on what your needs are for your site?

ian


On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:43:34PM -0600, Roger Frank wrote:
> I want to make a presentation that is visible on a series of web pages.
> I have too many choices, and I'm not sure which way to go.  If this
> were a few years back, I'd code it in HTML and move on.  But I've been
> looking at XML and I've made a few pages (with CSS definitions.)
> Then I read CSS is not the future, and I struggle with putting HTML
> on the same page as the XML (for links to the next page as an example.)
> There's also DHTML.  Or I could write it in LaTeX and translate it to
> HTML but then pictures would have to be in EPS format.  I like having lots of
> choices, but I'd like it more if I knew which one to pick for this on-line
> presentation.  I'm open to suggestions.  I'm willing to learn something new
> if it makes sense for now and in the future.  (No, I don't want to do it
> in nroff!)
> 
> Roger Frank
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