On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:42:30AM +1000, David Wilson wrote: > Matt, > > In the the developer Page > ( > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Project's_Developer_Page > ) > Stage 1, was intended as the 'minimal' requirement. And Stage 2 as the > "intermediate" . I can see it would be better to state this as a clear > objective.
ah. that's really excellent, thank you. This also pointed me to wiki/Bibliographic_Document_XML_Format which I had skimmed over before, but is now much clearer to me. I have to say the changes to the file format look so simple and manifestly superior to the current setup that it's astonishing they haven't been approved yet. > > Your suggestions are good so I will have a go at re-working the page with > Bruce's and your comments. > > I agree with Bruce the OOo database is not a minimal requirement. I like the > idea that the OOo database would behave like any other Internet data source. > If we built the DB interface to work via Zoom / Z39.50 interfaces direct to > internet sources - (library catalogues, etc) then the Internal OOoBib > database becomes more complex to build because we would need to build a > Z39.50 server for it as well, or other programming to make look as if it was > working behind a such a server. > I see you and Bruce are not of one mind about this, I can't say I know enough to have an opinion. > Also CiteProc is working right now using data stored in an eXist xml > database. > The quickest way to build something that works would be to build a xforms > based browser to work with eXist and a function to inset the selected > citation into Writer. > I know nothing about Xforms. Is this something that could be built, as it were, from within OOo? Or are you talking about a separate application? sound in any case as though the "minimal" target is not quite so far away as I'd htought, which is very good news of course. Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
