On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:25:44AM -0400, Adam Theo wrote:
> my question: does anyone know of a open source application that already
> does something like this? while i'd love to do this myself, i'd hate to
> spend the time when it already exists.
What you describe sounds a little like Wiki and its many derivatives.
A Template-Toolkit based front-end to one or other of the Wiki systems
should be fairly easy to implement and could be extremely powerful.
The more general concept of defining a document as a dynamic collection
of parts which are pulled together on demand, can be traced back to the
1960's when Ted Nelson first described what is now known as the "Xanadu"
project.
There has been much written about these systems, and many different
implementations offering various different flavours and features. I've
always shared Ted's view that this has potential to be the next really
big killer app, but I don't think anyone has managed to pull the right
pieces together to make something that works well in practice...
...yet! :-)
A
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