Show how to construct basic SQL queries using the db API,
The life of an http request to a dynamic, templated page
General rules to follow for stability, scalability
Show the step by step customizing of an existing package that +user_id etc
Show how to construct basic SQL queries using the db API,
The life of an HTTP request to a dynamic, templated page
General rules to follow for stability, scalability
Show the step by step customizing of an existing package that meets current recommended coding styles of OpenACS package development, by referring to developer resources.
Use the ArsDigita problem sets and "what Lars produced for ACS Java" as inspiration for a PostgreSQL equivalent tutorial @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ tools will be marked up to conform to the DocBook XML DTD. The remaining discussion is about publishing using Docbook.
- is a publishing standard based on XML + is a publishing standard based on XML with similar goals to the OpenACS Documentation project. Some specific reasons why we are using DocBook:
It is open-source.
The DocBook community mailing lists @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ of elements and use more exotic features in your documents. The list is made up of SGML-elements but basically the same elements are valid in the XML DTD as long as -you remember to: +you remember to:
- Given that your job starts at the
+ Given that your job starts at the
sect1-level, all your documents
should open with a <sect1>-tag
and end with the corresponding </sect1>.
- You need to feed every <sect1> two attributes. The first
+ You need to feed every <sect1> two attributes. The first
attribute, id, is standard and
can be used with all elements. It comes in very handy when
interlinking between documents (more about this when talking about
links in the section called “Links”). The value of
id has to be unique throughout
the book you're making since the id's in your sect1's will turn into filenames when
the book is parsed into HTML.
- The other attribute is xreflabel. The value of this is the text
+ The other attribute is xreflabel. The value of this is the text
that will appear as the link when referring to this sect1.
Right after the opening tag you put the title of the document -
this is usually the same as xreflabel-attribute. E.g. the top level of
the document you're reading right now looks like this:
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ </sect1>
- Inside this container your document will
+ Inside this container your document will
be split up into <sect2>'s,
each with the same requirements - id and xreflabel attributes, and a <title>-tag inside. Actually, the
xreflabel is never required in
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@
- For displaying a snippet of code, a
+ For displaying a snippet of code, a
filename or anything else you just want to appear as a part of a
sentence, we use <computeroutput> and <code> tags. These
replace the HTML-tag <code> tag,
@@ -562,15 +562,15 @@
- Linking falls into two different + Linking falls into two different categories: inside the book you're making and outside:
By having unique id's
you can cross-reference any part of your book with a simple tag,
regardless of where that part is.
-Check out how I link to a subsection of +Check out how I link to a subsection of the Developer's Guide:
Put this in your XML:
- Find information about creating a package in <xref linkend="packages-making-a-package"></xref>. @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@
- If you're hyper-linking out of the
+ If you're hyper-linking out of the
documentation, it works almost the same way as HTML - the tag is
just a little different (<ulink>):
<ulink url="http://www.oracle.com/">Oracle Corporation</ulink>
....will create a hyper-link to Oracle in the HTML-version of @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ Note: The graphics guidelines are not written in stone. Use another valid approach if it works better for you.
- To insert a graphic we use the elements
+ To insert a graphic we use the elements
<mediaobject>,
<imageobject>,
<imagedata>,
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@
- Here's how you make the DocBook + Here's how you make the DocBook equivalent of the three usual HTML-lists:
- DocBook supports several types of tables,
+ DocBook supports several types of tables,
but in most cases, the <informaltable> is enough:
<informaltable frame="all"> <tgroup cols="3"> @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@
- Our documentation uses two flavors of
+ Our documentation uses two flavors of
emphasis - italics and bold type. DocBook uses one - <emphasis>.
The This section is quoted almost verbatim from the LDP Author
Guide.<emphasis> tag
defaults to italics when parsed. If you're looking for
emphasizing with bold type, use <emphasis
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
Note
Once you have the Docbook -Tools installed, you can convert your xml documents to HTML or +Tools installed, you can convert your XML documents to HTML or other formats.
With the DocBook XSL stylesheets, generation of multiple files is controlled by the stylesheet. If you want to generate a single file, you call one stylesheet. If you want to generate multiple