[Bug-gne]Distributed design

[Christopher Mahan]

First, my wife is not feeling well lately so I'm doubling as a full-time 
nurse :(

Anyway.

I looked at php4 and it looks like something I can sink my teeth into and be 
fairly productive (the key word) quickly.

Looking at TEI, I am not extremely convinced that it would be good for us, 
since no one else is really doing what we do, and because it is really a way 
to render paper (book) formats in xml, which is far from what we are really 
doing.

I'll finish the contributor (author/editor/etc) thing this week, and then 
will get into the articles themselves in earnest.

Also... if an article is fairly long, and has multiple sections, do I want 
to treat the sections as separable and linkable?  What I am looking for is:

section 1
section 2
section 3
etc

each being callable as a separate sub document. Then, can a document include 
sections writeen by other people? This would make the thing quite modular... 
etc... Just a thought, though, for version 2.


On the distributed design:

I think that a few fast computers might be less efficient than a lot of 
older computers, as long as the maintenance and administration of those 
machines is also distributed (meaning I don't have to do it).




Christopher Mahan
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http://www.christophermahan.com/

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