Re: Guinea Pig for new Conduit (fwd)

Excellent.

I will contact you soon when I have something to run.

Should be within a week or so, maybe two.

I have someone with development skills who will help with the Mac side of 
things, so it is starting to look like we will have excellent Mac support.

Rick

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, "Jeff Mikels" wrote:

> I'd be willing to test it with OmniOutliner
>
>
> 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
>>
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