I've reconfigured things so that in the redesign, the menus are created based on nested lists in this file:

/db/data/boilerplate/site_menu.xml

There are two lists in there, one for the main menu and one for the submenu. They're both set up right now more or less according to what emerged from yesterday's discussions of KMF's Powerpoint slides.

The editorial team now has the power to change the menus, so they can try things out without needing me to implement them. The structure is pretty straightforward -- each menu or submenu is a <list>, and each item in the menu is an <item> containing a <ref>. Linking is done in the usual MoEML way with mol: prefixes.

The menu on the old site is controlled in a similar way using content in the boilerplate.xml file. We need to leave that alone for the moment, but once we've moved over to the redesign we can remove that content.