In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2008, at 8:38 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > > 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. > > > > These questions are precisely why I want to stay away from any servers > that don't support a query string. What do you mean? It's actually a query via a SOAP web service, very similar to the WoS group. The difference is that the service specifies the year parameters as part of a method, so you have e.g. [DBLPService search_for_string:@"foo" startYear:start endYear:end] instead of [OtherService search_for_string:@"ty=foo AND sy=2007 AND ey=2008"] which is the WoS/z39.50 style. As a user, I think WoS query strings suck, because I use it so infrequently that I can never remember the syntax. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
