Re: Twingle, SlideML, SoftwareML & Sprint

On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 15:09 Europe/Paris, Roger Fischer wrote:

> Hi
>
> I think the Twingle project is well on it's way.
> Chregu commited to work on that 100% during the sprint.
>
> I would like to dedicate myself to SlideML let's say at 70%.
> The rest percentage can be used for either Twingle or SoftwareML.

Wonderful.  I view the two projects as related in the future.

> The first day I want to finish finally the Schema for SlideML 1.0.
> So if you need me for Schema questions, please tell me now.

I think we plan to stick to an xhtml schema at first.

> The second day I want to focus on SlideML authoring - maybe there is a
> bridge to Twingle.

Yes indeed, last night I was busily writing the perfect XBL-interface 
to a SlideML authoring tool.  Unfortunately I was sleeping while this 
happened and thus lost the sources. :^)

Seriously, take a look at:

   http://xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/xblex.html

...for an illustration of how this might be implemented.  Combine this 
with a *really* simple way to Locate/Create/Collaborate (a 
Presentations folder automatically appearing in your Twingle "Personal 
Folder"), and leveraging RDF to easily find individual slides sitting 
out there in the RDF soup...pretty cool.

> At the end of the day, it should be possible for authors to enter their
> proposals and get SlideML out of it, as well as a HTML abstract page.
> I already have a prototype, but it needs some polishing. Also the 
> authoring
> part and the transfer to the OSCOM site is not implemented yet.

Right.

> As you may have seen, I and Bob had a conversation about CMS
> Features/SoftwareML.
> I don't know how you (mainly Gregor, as you are the Editor) see this 
> project
> in respect to the Zurich Sprint?
>
> I think it would be cool if anybody could commit quickly to what he 
> intends
> to do during the sprint.

I still hope, today, to stir up some movement on this.  I want to make 
sure we don't all just show up in the same place and read emails for 
two days.

> Btw: I would love to have somebody on the SlideML authoring boat.

Authoring, or authoring tool, or...

> PS: If you need me in regard to RDF/RDF Schema, either for Twingle or
> SoftwareML, I also would like to know it beforehand.

Hmmm...is it possible to write an RDF Schema validator in JS?  How 
different would it be from what you did in Bitflux for XSD?

--Paul