Re: Guinea Pig for new Conduit (fwd)

What XML compatible application would you like it to sync with?

Since you are going to test it, I would like to choose something that you 
will want to use.


The design will be that it can sync to anything that can handle XML by 
using XSLT, but I need one application to start with.


I'm currently thinking of using GanttProject, but that's not a text 
outliner, it's a project manager.


Part of the reason why I need people to test it, is that I need someone 
who will notice if the conversion isn't quite correct, and for that I need 
someone who actively uses the application we are going to sync to.


I will probably make an effort to make it sync with non-XML applications 
later on, but I would like to start with the easy case first.


Rick


On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, "Victor Saldarriaga" wrote:

> I would be willing to test it
>
> On 7/7/06, Rick Price <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>   This is a resend of my original message since nobody seems to have
>> responded to it.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on a XML conduit to sync between Progect on the Palm and XML.
>>
>> The design of the conduit will allow different types of XML to be
>> read/written, so that the conduit will be able to work with more than one
>> type of outliner.
>>
>> I think the XML conduit will be very important to Progect because it will
>> enable people to use their Progect data more freely, they will not be
>> limited to programs that understand the Progect PDB format.
>>
>> The conduit is in it's early stages, and so this help request may only
>> interest early adopters...
>>
>> I expect the conduit to take at least 6 more months to complete, not so
>> much
>> because it's hard, but because I have relatively little time.
>>
>> I need some people who use Progect and an outliner (other than PDesk since
>> it can't read/write XML currently) to work with me to test the XML conduit
>> functionality.
>>
>> I would actually be interested in people for more than one platform, so I
>> would be interested in hearing from Windows, Linux and Mac people and so
>> on.
>>
>> The outliner program used does not have to be the same across all the
>> platforms, this would be particularly relevant to Mac people since they
>> seem
>> to have some well liked outliners that are native to the Mac.
>>
>> I'm not expecting an avalanche of responses so any response is better than
>> none, however the following attributes would describe someone who would
>> likely be interested:
>>
>> * Uses Progect fairly frequently, Progect is on their critical path
>> * Avid user of an outliner program other than PDesk (Project management
>> tools certainly apply)
>> * Their favorite outliner/project management tool uses XML as it's file
>> format, or can at least read/write the format easily.
>> * Their favorite outliner/project management tool is commonly used, and
>> preferably open source etc.
>> * The person is comfortable with or willing to use the command line
>> * The person is a programmer (this is because the program is in it's early
>> stages, and while I don't need the person to program understanding
>> programming is an asset)
>> * The person understands XSLT (same as above)
>>
>> The conduit code is still very much in it's early stages, this is the
>> progression I see.
>>
>> 1) Export from Progect to a special purpose XML used to represent Palm
>> Databases (this is basically working)
>> 2) Export from Progect to a generally applicable XML via the command line,
>> one way translation only
>> 3) Import/Export from Progect to a generally applicable XML via the
>> command
>> line, one way translation only
>> 4) Palm Conduit running the conversion automatically
>> 5) Merge from Progect to a generally applicable XML via the command line,
>> this is two way translation
>> 6) Admin tools to decide what projects are converted to what programs etc
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> [=============================]
>>
>> Big whorls have little whorls,
>> Which feed on their velocity;
>> And little whorls have lesser whorls,
>> And so on to viscosity.
>>
>> Lewis Richardson
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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