Thanks, Aldo. It's too bad we can't use your framework now. It does sound similar to Exhibit.
I'll check out Narcissus. But I'm not so sure if I can incorporate the Exhibit-specific syntax (e.g., paths like .presidency.inDate). Thanks for the links! David Aldo Bucchi wrote: > Hi David, > > I built a javascript UI framework, loooooooong ago ( say, 2001-3 ). > It had databinding and allowed javascript expressions in inline declarations > > for example: > > <span > class="hey-im-a-binding-expression">getTextValue(anotherElement).toLowerCase() > + "blabla"+getTextValue(yetAnotherElement)</span> > > And the funny thing is that the final product was very similar to > longwell, in that it operated over a corpus of documents, extracted > "facets" and created a navigation framework automatically. It was > related to the real estate and construction industry, and could > understand formats such as autodesk whip ( ??? something like that, I > don't remember ) and PDFs... but I didn't know anything about RDF at > the time though ;( > > Unfortunately, it is private, obscure, and I wouldn't even know if it > still exists hehe ( this was the customer: www.planok.com ) > > Back to your expressions... perhaps you could you check on the Dojo > toolkit for something similar. I haven't looked at the toolkit for a > while but they *should* have binding and quite probably a parser ( if > narcissus isn't modular enough ). > > Best, > Aldo > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
