Alexandre and I have made some progress on the DBLP front offlist, and I'll hopefully have a working search group to contribute in the next couple of days.
Question: DBLP queries need a start/end year as input. What would be good UI for that? Inventing another custom query syntax is possible, but not very attractive. One route would just be to add a couple of date pickers, but that gets messy with the various controller/group/document interactions, since it would only be used for one group class. Having a token-field-like searchfield that passed token objects to the groups might be an option, if groups could handle the transformation to CCL or WoS queries. With that in mind, I wrote a Lex/Yacc parser a long time ago for WoS search strings, but it crapped out on non-ascii characters. I never finished converting the grammar to ANTLR, which at least supports UCS-2. Maybe the 10.5 NSRuleEditor would be useful, with a group class as delegate. I haven't looked at it in any detail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
