[freeroleplay] Re: Towards a better Document/Content MS
From: "Samuel Penn" <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:30:09 +0100 (BST)
Ricardo Gladwell said:
> Samuel Penn wrote:
> I'm of two minds whether or not to include styles such as even emphasis:
> after all, this is supposed to be a content-only format. It depends how
> much we can seperate style and
Another solution is just to use CML as the wrapper, and something
else for the content. For instance, you could embed XHTML within
the data portion if you wanted. XHTML 1.2 looks quite similar to
what you're suggesting for CML (nested section tags, no bold or
italics etc).
> You misunderstand, formats such as Yags would be unaffected by information
> loss. The information lost will be the style/layout information in the the
> OpenOffice document only. Yags data would be stored using an OO plugin and
> would not be affected. Given this, what is your opinion on this option
> now?
Ah, I understand now. That's fine then.
> It would be, in effect, writing another word processor. Because of this,
> I'm unsure if this option is necessary. What would the Java client offer
> that, say, OpenOffice couldn't?
Well, to reverse the question, how much of OO is actually needed?
All you need is support for some special tags (which needs to be
done in OO anyway), and basic text editing support.
> I have to admit, I'm coming round to this option more and more. The above
> wouldn't be so much of an issue: OpenOffice (or OO.org) would be the thick
> client and its already been written. You couldn't run it on your PDA but
> you could import content from your PDA into OO.org. OO.org already has its
> own content format, and it already seperates style and layout into
> seperate
> documents within a OO.org file (in three handy files: content.xml,
> style.xml and layout.xml :).
>
> In which case, Jexus just becomes a webdav storage facility with a web
> front-end. In fact, I'm not even sure what Jexus would be for: linkig
> content in a wiki like way? Dynamic publishing of content?
It'd be the interesting option. btw, the project I'm on at the moment
is storing NewsML in a content management system (Documentum), and
is presenting web services (Java/Weblogic) to an MS Windows desktop.
Plugins for MS Word have been written to allow editing of the NewsML
within MS Word.
Very similar to what you're talking about. Getting everything working
with MS Word has been a nightmare.
> Good point: forwarding this onto the Jexus development mailing list as
> well
> :) I suggest we send discussion on this to both mailing lists, unless
> anyone objects?
I'm not signed up to the other list yet (and won't bother until
I'm back online after my house move).
--
Be seeing you,
Sam.
