[brailleblaster] Re: some considerations
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:31:16 -0600
An adendum to my previous e-mail. Of course BrailleBlaster won't create
complete Daisy documents, just the xml file. That is the only thing
I usually deal with, so i tend to thing it's the whole thing. I
understand that there is software that wikll create a complete taisy
document from the xml file.
John
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:13:57PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of qubit
> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 1:32 PM
> > To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [brailleblaster] some considerations
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> My websites:
> GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.godtouches.org
> Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Location: Madison, WI, USA
>
>
--
My websites:
GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.godtouches.org
Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Location: Madison, WI, USA
Other related posts:
