Subject:
|
Re: FAQ data format possibilities
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.faq
|
Date:
|
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:03:59 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
jsproat@geocities.+spamcake+com
|
Viewed:
|
1747 times
|
| |
|
|
Todd,
I read your post just after I put up my own. Ships in the night. :-P
Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.faq, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> BTW, something like this would be nice for a file structure:
> .../faq/lugnet/market/auction/awareness/1.en.faq
> .../faq/lugnet/market/auction/awareness/2.en.faq
'Kay, I hadn't thought of that. I like it; the only real drawback I can see
to this is how to phrase the category titles; e.g. translating:
/faq/lugnet/market/auction/awareness/1.en.faq
to:
FAQ -> LUGNET -> The Market -> Auctions -> Awareness ->
You mean I can get money for my old LEGO®?
or even to:
LUGNET FAQ
Document 7: The Market
Chapter 7.2: Auctions
Section 7.2.1: Awareness
Question 7.2.1.1: You mean I can get money for my old LEGO®?
I suppose an extra file would need to exist in the directory, with the
directory's title.
> Advantages of this file structure:
Good points. I am convinced. Hey, the search engine could have a
Yahoo!-style feel to it.
Which raises the question: Where does the FAQ end and the rest of LUGNET
begin?
> It may be
> useful to be able to limit the hierarchical range of Q&A pairs.
> [...]
> Newsgroups: lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos,lugnet.loc.us.ma
> [specifies levels 5 and 4 only]
Well, yeah. I'm likening it unto the Bindery Context on an NDS server. I
guess a search path would also follow the paradigm. Essentially, we're
mapping portions of a heirarchy into a flat directory.
> Alternatively, the URI of the ng/resource could be used instead of an ng
> name, i.e.:
> Locations: /loc/us/ma/bos/, /loc/us/ma/
This really depends upon what direction you'll take with the ng organization
in the future. Do these items point to newsgroups, or to category pages on
LUGNET? Perhaps to both, e.g.
Locations: lugnet.market.auction,/market/auction/,/market/
> A bonus with the URI approach is that subcategories can be encoded directly
> into the location! :)
> [...]
> If the subcategory actually exists as a defined webpage subsection, then the
> Q&A pair would appear there on that page as well as higher pages.
This would solve the naming problem I described above.
> The FAQ Q&A pairs then also help plan and organize substructures of areas.
> Wherever lots of information goes, substructures arise. Wherever
> substructures arise, subcategories can be considered and planned.
Hmmm... Are you actually *looking* for more work, Todd? :-,
> If HTML is allowed in the core content, then I think it ought to be highly
> restrictive HTML, with strict usage rules.
> [...]
> Just the
> basic necessities: paragraphs, italics (for names/citations), boldface (so
> long as it's not abused), preformatted text, and of course hyperlinks.
> I have routines to convert HTML entities like ü and ® to ISO-8859-1
> ASCII and back, and a routine to line-wrap arbitrary paragraphs of text, so
> handling <P>, <I>, <B>, <PRE>, and <A> would be pretty straightforward.
Sounds okay. Should these be escaped, or would your parser watch out for
them?
> I suppose that each ng or each Q&A pair will need its own "default" or
> "home" language -- that is, something stating in which language the "master
> copy" of the Q&A pair is originally written, and from which all other-
> language translations are derived (for that Q&A pair).
This could make compiling the FAQ items more difficult. As elitist as it
sounds, I think I would prefer the FAQ items -- even items specific to
non-U.S. localities -- to begin with English. At least for the start.
> We wouldn't want to
> see circular results like what happened to Mark Twain's
> _The_Jumping_Frog_[1].
You realize, of course, I have to go read the story again now. Good thing
you referred to Twain instead of, oh say, Danielle Steele. :-,
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"I prefer the term para-mental. It keeps me out of the loony bin."
obconspiracy: Radio Free Japan strives with a gang of hypothetical
undertalented rock musicians to play annoying music at Venus, against the
wishes of Steve Jackson Games, in order to take advantage of the boom box
problem at Alabama.
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: FAQ data format possibilities
|
| (...) I've got a mechanism for this for the ng names so that, for example, "sf" is displayed as "San Francisco" -- but it isn't internationalized yet. Not sure how to handle subcategory names in the FAQ for virtual subcategories that don't yet (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | FAQ data format possibilities
|
| (...) Separate files would make it even easier to parse. Also easier for editing, maintenance, and division of labor. Plenty simple to organize the individual translations using ISO 639 suffixes too, just like webpages, because then you can 'grep' (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
|
19 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
