Subject: Re: [TS] New poll for thoughtstream
From: Ben Darnell (ben@thoughtstream.org)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 15:25:11 EDT
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:45:22AM -0700, Jack Park wrote:
> Not sure my comments will be well received, but I'd be inclined to do a Java
> port that would run completely cross platform. At this web site:
Volunteering to do work is always well recieved. I'm not a fan of Java,
and there's not a good VM for Linux (or if there is, Netscape doesn't
use it), but I'm not going to try to talk anyone out of contributing.
It looks like your work complements mine, because I'm not planning to
work on a graph editor or an enhanced text editor for the Python
ThoughtStream (not at first anyway; graphing at least will probably be
added eventually). I can give you a module in the thoughtstream cvs
repository if you'd like.
> http://lynx.eaze.net/~pdkb/web/jack_gui.jpg
> is a screen shot of an open source project I built for building topic maps.
> I used GraphMaker for the graphics editor, and Jext for the text editor. In
> fact, the XML displayed in the text editor was constructed by the copy
> command at the graph editor.
You mean the graph is fully editable? Cool. How much can be done
without delving into the text editor?
>
> Jext is really nifty because it lets you put templates into a menu. It came
> with Java, HTML, and a bunch of other templates. I took them out and put
> DocBook, and a draft of the XTM topic maps tags in. You can copy and paste
> between the two editors. I would think this project, if given some synch
> code for palms would be quite useful, once some XML dialect is invented to
> handle TS structures.
Such an XML dialect already exists, at
http://thoughtstream.org/thoughtstream.dtd
although it's due for some changes (updates to match
http://thoughtstream.org/design.php3 )
Is there an official XML format for topic maps, or are you just working
with one of the proposals? I think that TS will end up using a subset
of topic maps (or perhaps the whole thing), with a few extensions.
-Ben
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