[Jexus-devel] Re: [freeroleplay] Re: Towards a better Document/Content MS

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

Samuel Penn wrote:
> Ricardo Gladwell said:
> Another solution is just to use CML as the wrapper, and something
> else for the content. For instance, you could embed XHTML within
> the data portion if you wanted. XHTML 1.2 looks quite similar to
> what you're suggesting for CML (nested section tags, no bold or
> italics etc).

I have to admit, I'm still not familiar with XHTML. I didn't realise they 
had added additional constructs, such as the section tag you highlighted. 
Interesting... another book to add to my reading list :)

>>It would be, in effect, writing another word processor. Because of this,
>>I'm unsure if this option is necessary. What would the Java client offer
>>that, say, OpenOffice couldn't?
> 
> Well, to reverse the question, how much of OO is actually needed?
> All you need is support for some special tags (which needs to be
> done in OO anyway), and basic text editing support.

Good question. The only reason I suggest OO is that it seems to do a lot of 
what we want to do: export to a wide range of formats, including PDF, 
XML-based content syntax, seperation of content, layout and style. It has a 
plugin facility, it uses Java bindings. I'd be interested to know how we 
could insert yags tags into a document and process and display them all 
within OO.org. What do we need Jexus for?!?

All we need is a webdav repository or XML database to store the content so 
it can be searched by other applications. Perhaps Jexus could merely be a 
database for OpenOffice text documents that is searchable and allows us to 
dynamically apply different styles to different documents?

Kind regards...

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