Comments on: Creating book XHTML from DocBook

By: raymond.yee

raymond.yee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:47:35 +0000

Fabien -- thanks for reminding me of using wikis here. I had been thinking so much in terms of straight up publishing and then generating a custom web app to wrap the book that I overlook making a wiki.

By: raymond.yee

raymond.yee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:45:38 +0000

@abdelazer: Thanks for pointing me to the CSS associated with http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/ and
http://labs.oreilly.com/ofps.html Liza had told me about
http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook/src/93154fbaae9b/web/ -- but I forgot to look there for stylesheets.

By: utopiah

utopiah — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:47:54 +0000

So "a book that would could interact with my readers, be self-correcting and self-updating." sounds a lot like a wiki. You might want to previous initiatives like Knowing Knowledge, Business Model Generation or Real World Haskell. They are not necessarily what you are looking for since it's, I think, mainly the reverse process : one book by a community generated from a collaborative website.
Instead you might look at Wikipatterns which I think followed the same historical path that you did, meaning a book and then a community companion website.

Good luck,
Fabien Benetou aka Utopiah.

By: abdelazer

abdelazer — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:58:19 +0000

You might be interested in reviewing the CSS for the O'Reilly OFPS sites like http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/