[Jexus-devel] Re: [freeroleplay] Generic Document Support

[Ricardo G. <ax...@uk...>]

Samuel Penn wrote:
> Currently, the Yagsbook Encyclopedia only supports Yagsbook XML
> format, which in turns only supports Yags ruleset. It would be
> nice if things were made more generic, to enable the support of
> other document formats and other systems.

I think allowing Yagsbook to support other rules systems would definitely 
widen its appeal, although how this would be achieved I have no idea. 
Perhaps, some method of generically assigning and describing traits?

> Just to make things clear, it would work by the Encyclopedia class
> have an add(ISource src) method to add an (already instantiated)
> data source. The ISource interface defines a
> (IEntry[])getAllEntries() method to getting all the entries out.
> Each IEntry represents an individual XML document, giving access
> to it via getter methods.
> 
> I think this latter is the best way forward.

I agree, some sort of generic mechanism for accessing the content would 
probably be best.

> Would the CML format provide this sort of meta data? I need to flesh
> out details about what I mean by TopicSet for instance (a concept I've
> taken from NewsML) since currently it's all pretty much just in my head.

Meta-data would probably be provided through RDF.

-- 
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
pre...@fr...