[Gusdev-gusdev] Re: plugin for XML

[Steve F. <st...@pc...>]

Terry-

as a follow-on to my last mail, it might be interesting to see how far 
you can get defining a mapping for the TIGR XML format used by 
LoadGeneFeaturesFromXML.  if you could do that, i think that would 
demonstrate a major advance for us.

steve

Terry Clark wrote:

>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
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