[PP-main] Roadmap and notes.

[Nick Lothian]

> Making the XML DTD.
> This is perhaps the most important task at the moment. First of all, we
need
> a spec of what we want it to describe, and probably also what we
specifically
> *don't* want it to describe. If the namespaces thing described in an
earlier
> post here is decided to be a good idea, we can do this as two DTDs, one
for
> the wrapping of *all* Peer Press items (containing metadata and such) and
> another for encoding standard news items. Or we could integrate, so that
the
> payload of the outer format can either be another DTD, or an element which
> defines a news item, which is defined by the same DTD as the metadata. The
> first solution is perhaps cleanest. We need to put together a few people
who
> want to work on the DTD, I'm probably the natural choice as coordination
guy
> for that part.
>

Yes, I think we need the two DTDs - any other way will be too limiting in
the long run (I'm not too sure I follow your second method, anyway).

May I suggest the terms "Wrapping DTD", which contains a Payload, which
optionally conforms to the "News DTD" for full inclusion into the PeerPress
framework.

There's some stuff in the ICE spec which we may be able to adapt for the
Wrapping DTD. I could look into that some if people think that is a good
idea.

Nick Lothian