- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:18:18 +0100
- To: "WAI-IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> From: Geoff Deering [...] > I know I have enough on my hands just trying to keep up with basic W3C > technologies. Whose the guru who has all this encapsulated > in a vision > *AND* really knows how to deploy all this in one CMS? I don't think it's realistic anymore to expect one single guru to know all these things, but having separate groups of developers within the organisation with good experience of one of the technologies. You want a system at the core which is modular, and can deliver the various markup solutions based on a shared pool of resources (be it XML, an RDBM, web service interfaces to complex - and legacy - enterprise systems, etc). I think somebody mentioned Cocoon. That's certainly one of the ways I can see this moving towards. Again, you wouldn't ask a single guru to develop your very own, in house version of a Cocoon-like system plus all the various output modules. You'd get a concerted effort to get a central framework in place, but making sure that it can indeed be expanded in future to output any standard formats - ideally rolling them out one by one (saying from the start that you need xhtml,xml,svg,rdf,atom,kitchensinkML,etc is not a realistic proposition, and the decision-makers need to be made aware that this is the case). However, I don't think that the opposite trend - having a single monolithic super markup language that does everything (and includes the complete DTD of kitchensinkML) is a viable alternative either. I do see the need for separate languages for separate purposes. It's true, however, that we need to be careful not to get lost in the see of similar-but-not-quite ones (RSS vs Atom, and all their separate versions) Just thinking out loud. Not really an answer to your question, I know... Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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