[generguide-devel] Re: [Borges]Generguide/Borges - similar projects

[Cameron S. <sho...@op...>]

Good to hear from you Camille,

I will update the Borges design ideas as you suggest.

I'm currently spending my spare time working on=20
http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net and consquently won't have much time=20
to focus on borges/generguide for a few months.  (Unfortunately I need=20
to spend most of my time writing programs for people that pay me.)

However, I will certainly like to participate in design ideas now with=20
the intent that I get back into coding on this project some time in the=20
future.

Camille, is there anyone else on the Borges team?  What country/time=20
zones are you in?  I live in Sydney Australia: GMT+10hours.

What rough timelines are you working to?

Camille B=E9gnis wrote:

>On Monday 07 June 2004 23:25, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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>>Hello Borges people,
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>Hello generguide people :-)
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>First of all I must stress that we just started a new phase for Borges, =
aiming=20
>at developping from scratch (or almost) a better system based on Borges=20
>functionalities.  Info about that found here:=20
>http://borges-dms.sourceforge.net/
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>Generguide functionalities are very interesting and the Configuration Bu=
ilder=20
>quite handy.
>"Old" Borges proposes a similar mechanism through profiling based on the=
=20
>exclusion of elements with specific "condition" attributes. The advantag=
e of=20
>generguide approach is that it is completely DTD independent.
>I have also always wondered how Borges could import modules located outs=
ide of=20
>its own projects. Generguide includes from URIs looks brilliant to me.
>Finally, the fact that Borges V2 plans to extensively use xinclude makes=
 both=20
>projects merge more likely to happen in a smooth way.
>
>So I'd be glad we work together so that generguide functionalities are=20
>integrated into Borges V2 and Borges V2 possibilities are available to=20
>generguide projects.
>
>As I see it, generguide offers two distinct original features:
>1) ability to replace locally included modules by external modules refer=
enced=20
>by a URI.
>2) ability to exclude modules from the master document based on the modu=
les=20
>IDs, with a simple inheritance mechanism.
>
>To start with, I suggest you the following:
>1) Add external modules references functionality  to=20
>http://borges-dms.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BorgesSpecs
>2) Extend profiling mechanism features in =20
>http://borges-dms.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BorgesSpecs and=20
>http://borges-dms.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BorgesTechSpecs (Profi=
ling=20
>sections)
>
>Looking forward working with you,
>
>Camille.
>
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>>I came across your project
>>http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/project/Borges/ as I was installing
>>Mandrake 10.0 and noticed that Borges is quite similar to a project I'v=
e
>>been working on:  http://generguide.sourceforge.net .
>>
>>Our aim with generguide was to:
>>1. Produce a generic software developers guide
>>2. Produce a documentation system where you can selectively build a
>>document from sections of a master document based on a configuration
>>file.  We written a Web Interface to the configuration file so that you
>>can build it on the fly:
>>http://www.gisontheweb.com:8080/~cameron/cgi-bin/processconfig.pl
>>
>>Anyway, it seems silly to develop two competing systems in parallel and
>>I'm like to work out a way to merge the two projects.
>>
>>Are you interested?
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