[Gusdev-gusdev] plugin for XML

[Terry C. <tw...@cs...>]

Posted for discussion at 
    http://flora.uchicago.edu/ 
is a short specification  sketched (working draft) 
for an XML-to-GUS Plugin for GUS' NASequenceImp, LoadSeqFromXML.pm.

The idea, based on the XML to DB/SQL work by Ron Bourret,
is to give a flexible way to map various sequence
data management projects into GUS using the same source.
The Plugin operates from 1) an XML formatted sequence file
and 2) a mapping from the sequence file to GUS space. 

The method is generally applicable to GUS objects/tables,
but the idiosyncracies of objects probably calls for
individual mappers, like  LoadSeqFromXML.pm 
(better named as LoadNASequenceFromXML.pm).  

Are there any thoughts, variations, existing work, etc.,
about the idea?

Terry