text: Folks, Derek Price, the cvshome.org webmaster, suggested I mail these lists with this suggestion. I'm not on the lists, so I'd appreciate cc's of replies. Thanks. Anyway; Working on the FreeBSD documentation and website we currently embed various CVS keywords around the text to show things such as when the page was last modified. Looking around for a better way to do this, I decided that using XML namespaces might be more appropriate. So somewhere in my XML document I might have: ... <cvs:keywords <cvs:keyword$Author$</cvs:keyword> <cvs:keyword$Date$</cvs:keyword> <!-- More cvs:keyword elements as necessary --> </cvs:keywords> <!-- Rest of document --> ... and then in my XSL stylesheet I might have: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns: ... <!-- Include the last modified date --> <p>Last modified: <xsl:value-of </p> ... </xsl:stylesheet> The advantage of using namespaces in this way is that I can embed CVS keywords in to any XML document, whether it's marked up in XHTML, DocBook, or some other DTD, knowing that I can correctly extract the value of those keywords using an XSL stylesheet, without needing to use any hacks to do so. So, on to the purpose of this e-mail. 1. Would you folks at be interested in trying to propogate this scheme as a standard way to embed CVS meta data into XML? This would probably require an announcement of some sort from yourselves, and a web page showing how document and stylesheet authors can use this (which I'd be happy to put together). 2. Propogate the URI or similar. There doesn't need to be any documents at that URI, it just needs to be something that everyone who wants to use this scheme can agree on. Thoughts? N -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve FreeBSD Documentation Project --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 ---
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