[daisy] A lot of questions.

[Josué Alcalde González]

El mié, 11-10-2006 a las 15:40 +0200, Bruno Dumon escribió:
> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 10:44 +0200, Josué Alcalde González wrote:
> > Hello, my name is Josué Alcalde and I am new in this list. I work in
> > CSA, a company in Burgos, Spain. We are going to develop a Document
> > Management System based on Daisy CMS. 

> > I have read that in a few weeks, Daisy will have a Workflow
> > implementation based on jBMP. I would like to have more details and I
> > would like to collaborate if it is posible.
> 
> Basically the workflow comes down to this:
>[..]
> Maybe this is too technical or not technical enough for you, feel
> welcome to share your ideas about this topic too.
> 
It is ok. We must have a look at jBMP, and I hope to help as much as
posible with this, with ideas and if posible, with code.

> > 
> > About the hierarchical structure I would like to ask how could it be
> > implemented.
> > I thought about implementing a new document type" called "Folder" which
> > could include other documents (and, of course), other "Folders", and
> > modify the others documents to have a multi-value field to select the
> > folder.
> > I would have to make some or lots of modifications and I haven't got
> > enough time to understand Daisy structure completely. I would like to
> > ask if you think this is a good way, or if you would make another
> > modifications.
> 
> I think this is a good approach. Be sure to associate the documents with
> the folders, not the other way around, as otherwise this would require
> to edit/update the folder document each time you want to add a document
> to it.
> 
> I don't know what exactly you refer to with "I would have to make some
> or lots of modifications" -- all this should be doable just by defining
> document types, doctype specific XSLs, and publisher requests. In other
> words, a bit of configuration.
> 
I didn't think it would be posible to make a hierachical structure without 
any important modification.
I have not yet studied all the possibilities of daisy. 
I didn't know too much about xsl, cocoon... it is all new for but I am learning.

First we are going to make translation and skinning, while we try to learn more things about it.

Thank you very much for your comments.