[Gimp-web] dgo

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

I spent some time this weekend working on the developer.gimp.org
website. I haven't put the stuff on developer.gimp.org yet although
the new site already has most of the content the current one
shows. The main reason for not putting it up on developer.gimp.org
right now is political: I don't want to step on anyone's feet.

OK, here's an online preview:

 http://blinken.dyndns.org/dgo/

There's a terball available here:

 http://blinken.dyndns.org/dgo.tgz

As you will notice, the site is built upon DocBook Website (see
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/website/). The source files
adhere to the DTD but I modified some of the stylesheets in order to
get strict XHTML and to change the look. Thanks to drc and scizzo for
helping me with the layout.

If you want to look into the details, you probably best start looking
at

 http://blinken.dyndns.org/dgo/layout.xml

which defines the site structure. For each webpage, there exists an
XML source. The front page is for example generated from

 http://blinken.dyndns.org/dgo/main.xml.

I think the source format is reasonably simple but still very powerful
since the transformation pulls in the complete Docbook -> XHTML
stylesheets.

Since the stylesheets include support for RSS, I'm now playing with
RSS feeds. I will try to generate an RDF from the GIMP ChangeLog. I
hope that some day we will be able to use an RSS feed from GNOME CVS
and I was told that this is indeed planned. I'll let you know if I
get anywhere with my ChangeLog to RSS conversion. If not, perhaps one
of you Python hackers could help...


Sven