Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Message-ID: <30142024.jo3loCeJWj@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:46:10 +0100 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&. <9af7f027-c78f-491d-a427-4576adfcc768@10g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <23YbGkLWbkxQFwXT@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> <18e8688c-731a-46ce-b81f-bdf3b30e1a5d@10g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <55e1ad32-a46d-4993-bfc6-423082713114@4g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> <94d85931-0447-446a-b403-124e797ab4da@i1g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <+idJTVMLvgzQFwH3@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> <3acb9cd7-70c9-4585-a2b2-bc3c57227f64@c14g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> <010aec15-60d5-41cd-a88d-85c48cd9d230@c14g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> Followup-To: comp.lang.javascript MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 2012 15:46:10 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: aeffde81.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=9FJ?ilPi:K\@>[RYkFXOIPA9EHlD;3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ8kFYBYU3JEo]]fQ>ZA8Jcc_ X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:17784 Scott Sauyet wrote: > Dr J R Stockton wrote: >> Scott Sauyet posted: >>> Dr J R Stockton wrote: >>>> A newsgroup FAQ should be implemented in such a fashion that anybody >>>> who knows how to read and write News articles can step in immediately >>>> as the FAQ maintainer. It is difficult enough to find suitable >>>> maintainers; possibilities should not be forced to jump through extra >>>> hoops of learning before they can make alterations to the FAQ. >>> So do you have a proposal for how to maintain the FAQ? >> As a plain text file, used directly as the body of news postings, edited >> by whatever editor(s) the current maintainer currently chooses. > > Okay, so we have a third proposal, as well as the status quo. Thomas > Lahn proposed something very much like the current XML structure, > although perhaps with multiple documents. (It's still not clear to me > if he means to have additional documents for supporting material or to > make each entry it's own XML file, but that's another discussion.) As I explained in my previous posting [1] already, each section of that FAQ has its own XML file already. Using the same approach, further division into one XML file for each subsection is easily possible. Without neither negating the existence of a one-document FAQ containing all sections nor the possibility to display only one section/subsection per document, and the possibility to post it or its sections/subsections separately and regularly in the newsgroup, as plain text. PointedEars ___________ [1] -- Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are positively harmful for cross-browser scripting. -- Richard Cornford, cljs, (2004)