oPublishing Basics
oStories are the core of the oBook model. oStories are created by wrapping
your exisiting stories in a set of XML tags Here's an example of a regular
(very simple) HTML story page.
<html>
<head><title>My Sad Story by Ann Author</title></head>
<body>
<h1>My Sad Story</h1>
<h2>by Ann Author</h2>
<p>Once upon a time there lived a small dog in a large trailer park.</p>
<p>His family moved away when he was out playing in the vacant lot
across the street.</p>
<p>When he returned to the now vacant trailer, he was forced to
go on government assistance merely to scrape by. I'm mean even trailer
rent is pretty expensive for a dog.</p>
</body>
</html>
The oStory version of this would look like:
<html>
<head><title>My Sad Story by Ann Author</title></head>
<body>
<h1>My Sad Story</h1>
<h2>by Ann Author</h2>
<ostory sid="1">
<otitle val="My Sad Story"></otitle>
<oauthor val="Ann Author"></oauthor>
<opublisher val="Ann Author's oStory Site"></opublisher>
<ocontent>
<p>Once upon a time there lived a small dog in a large trailer park.</p>
<p>His family moved away when he was out playing in the vacant lot
across the street.</p>
<p>When he returned to the now vacant trailer, he was forced to
go on government assistance merely to scrape by. I'm mean even trailer
rent is pretty expensive for a dog.</p>
</ocontent>
</ostory>
</body>
</html>
The browser ignores these tags and your story displays exactly as before.
Your story page can be as complicated as you like, but the actual story
itself has to follow a few simple guidelines. Let's look at the oStory
section in more detail.
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