Hi CPH, Thanks for hanging with this.
On 1/30/06, CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm obviously not asking the right questions of the developers on the SW > project (or it is possible that they are not listening). It's probably a little of both. We have consistently had communications problems with that group. It might be impolitic to say this on the list, but I'm getting tired of this. > Anyway I'll like to get a few clarifications here before I go much further as > this will help to ensure that I am asking the [EMAIL PROTECTED] guys the right > questions : > > 1) we will break up the development of the new biblio code into at least X > phases : > a) parsing and importation of new elements > b) making the relevant UNO interfaces available for manipulation > c) exportation of the new elements > d) UI specification and implementation > 2) backward compatibility with the old elements must be maintained (and if > possible backward compatibility with UNO objects); > > My comments on the above : > - 1 (a) is half done as I think that I am correctly parsing all elements. > However I am not sure how to change the existing code so that I can easily > retain compatibility as per 2. Yeah, input here would be valuable. The model is quite different, as right now the citation (bibliography mark) holds the metadata, which is not a good design choice. It should instead be something like: citation <- - - -> reference (metadata) <- - - -> bibliographic entry (formatted reference) As I mentioned earlier, it'd also be nice to find out if we can modify the bibliography table generation in a backward-compatible way. E.g extend it so it does the dynamic stuff we want, but otherwise keep the same/similar. > - Once 1(a) is defined then 1(b) and 1(c) should not be too difficult ( I > hope :) > - Obviously once the UNO model is available then you can write your trial > dialogs using the UNO API's to get the best possible interface. This will > then need to be specified as per http://specs.openoffice.org > > If the above is reasonably agreeable then I'll try to rephrase my questions > and try to get some answers. It looks good to me. Bruce --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
