A technical guide to the MEP Sampler

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

Last revised: 21 February 2004

This document is currently just a place-holder: I haven't actually gotten around to writing up the technical guide I think the MEP sampler needs to have. If you want to encourage me to hurry up, feel free to send me email.

When I do write this up, I expect to handle several topics (further suggestions welcome):

• how do the three interfaces work? (there are three distinct entry screens, generated from a single source document via XSLT, with some simple rules in the sitemap. Warning about duplicating data)
• what is where on the CD-ROM?
• further info about:
  • Cocoon
  • XML
  • MEP
  • CSS
  • XSLT
• How to put your own data in here
• Why NDATA SGML, not NDATA XML?
• Warning about PIs inside of DTD subsets
• How the littlebooks were made from the big books (and the crucial importance of single master files)
• Miscellaneous project-management advice (use CVS! ...)
• DTD development
• DTD techniques
• sampler
• Cocoon
• Why doesn't the sampler use eXist, or some other XML-aware full-text search engine?
• hacks in the current version
• short essay on hacks and purity
• examples
• searches

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