Re: Guinea Pig for new Conduit (fwd)

I'd be willing to test it with OmniOutliner


On 7/7/06, Rick Price <[email protected]> wrote:
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> This is a resend of my original message since nobody seems to have
> responded to it.
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> Hi,
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> I'm working on a XML conduit to sync between Progect on the Palm and XML.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> * 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
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