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Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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lugnet.faq
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Sun, 25 Apr 1999 04:03:58 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) and Sproaticus
> (jsproat@geocities.com) writes lots of stuff:
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> Guys!
>
> It sounds like you are mixing the raw data format and the
> presentation format.
I'd like to see Latin-1 as the raw data format, with conversions to the
presentation formats of: (a) HTML for webpages and (b) Latin-1/ASCII for
text documents (i.e. news postings).
> [...]
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> Now I have some questions and ideas:
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> - Should we use ASCII or Latin-1 for the content character
> set?
Is this a choice between
(a) 7-bit ASCII with HTML entities:
> < " & ü ®
and
(b) 8-bit Latin-1 with no encoded characters -- directly uses:
> < " & ü ®
?
I prefer (b) over (a) because (b) is much easier to edit, and less error
prone. (a) is OK for seldom-used characters like ®, but clumsy for commonly
used characters like &, <, and >. It's especially super-yucky for ".
> - The content should of cause not be a full HTML document.
> I imagine something that fits into this template:
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>%Subject%</TITLE>
> <BODY>
> <H1>%Subject%</H1>
> %Content%
> </HTML>
Yes! Way agreeing with that! I need to be able to just "inject" little
HTML fragments on-the-fly into HTML pages. Definitely don't want full HTML
documents in the FAQ entries -- the headers and footers and extra tag gunk
would just have to be stripped, which makes more work at both ends.
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) and Sproaticus (jsproat@geocities.com) writes lots of stuff: Guys! It sounds like you are mixing the raw data format and the presentation format. I'll try to stick to the raw data format here, and list the ideas I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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