[brailleblaster] Re: some considerations
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:13:57 -0600
That is basically my understanding. However, I see no reason why
BrailleBlaster couldn't create a Daisy document, just as Word can create
a doc or docx file. Someone might want to use brailleBlaster to create a
braille document from scratch. Creating a badsic Daisy template is
simple. I do that in liblouisutdml for translating text files and
back-translating brf files. The structure the user will see for such a
file is juust a set of paragraphs. She would have the option of
changging the paragraphs to whatever else is permitted in that point by
Daisy.
From the programmer's point of view, all the editor will be doing is
adding nodes, deleting them, changing the tags on them (as for headings)
and changing the content of text nodes.
For Laura, can you point me to editors that use Sax, a DOM or both?
Considering the above paragrraph, will Sax do the things mentioned
there?
John
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 01:46:31PM -0800, John Gardner wrote:
> Laura, I wrote the original specification with the clear hope that the user
> would be required to do as little structure manipulation as possible. As
> much as feasible, BB should appear like a WYSIWYG editor. BB has the DAISY
> tag set but is not restricted to any of the DAISY structural requirements.
> BB can operate on a fully valid DAISY file, but it cannot really create one.
>
> At least that is what I think BB should be if it is to be useable by novices
> as well as experts.
>
> John G
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> Hi all -- I've been reading the various pages on parsers and tika and sax vs
>
> dom4j and I am wondering what will be the nature of the editing that braille
>
> blaster will support?
> Will the end user have an understanding of DAISY, and expect to manipulate
> objects and subtrees in the document's structure? or will he/she just see a
> rendered document like Word and not know or care about underlying objects?
> I'm still just throwing the question out there for discussion. I have been
> working on tika patches, thinking tika might be what is needed, but it of
> course tika uses sax rather than dom4j.
> However, some editors apparently use both sax events and dom.
>
> Just trying to stir up some discussion. Comments welcome.
> --le
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