Re: RefDoc - Neutral XML Document Format Input/Current State

2005-08-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Robert, Thanks for your analysis - I hope others are going to answer as well, but here are at least my comments: I've created several types and other proposed 'well-defined' bits of metadata to assist the publishing of these documents into a nice format and easing the pain of parsing

Re: RefDoc - Neutral XML Document Format Input/Current State

2005-08-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Thanks for your analysis - I hope others are going to answer as well, I've forwarded Roberts original message to the Forrest list since we will, no doubt, be using the output of this project. I've asked Forrest devs to reply on our own list, but I will provide a

Re: RefDoc - Neutral XML Document Format Input/Current State

2005-08-01 Thread Robert Graham
ok - my view was a more high-level one than classes and methods, which are adequately covered by the javadocs. These are certainly useful though, but see the proposed use-cases below for a more component-oriented view. Okay, this was something I wasn't sure about, but I thought it might be

Re: RefDoc - Neutral XML Document Format Input/Current State

2005-08-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Robert Graham wrote: Note that these assume a dynamic search of the refdoc index - I think the full power of the refdoc will be available only when querying the Lucene index directly, as is done in some of these use-cases, but the document-oriented version (that will probably be published as

Re: RefDoc - Neutral XML Document Format Input/Current State

2005-08-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 1 août 05, à 15:29, Ross Gardler a écrit : ...The dynamic searching capability can be got for free by integrating your work into Forrest ... ...Of course, Bertrand may have something else in mind as well. I was thinking about searching on any metadata field provided by refodc snippets.

Re: RefDoc - Neutral XML Document Format Input/Current State

2005-08-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Robert, ...Maybe introducing an order number metadata attribute would help and not be too hard to manage? We could then rearrange the snippets be changing their order numbers, while keeping the overall order based on the snippet types. Perhaps. I think some sort of weight might give the

RefDoc - Neutral XML Document Format Input/Current State

2005-07-31 Thread Robert Graham
Hello All, I'd like any and all input on this as it would make it much better than I will alone. However, I've sketched out something to start from. First I'll give a brief description of what I'm talking about for those that haen't kept up with RefDoc, then I'll present my ideas, and finally