[Mged-mage-perl] MAGEstk v1.1 improvements

[Jason S. <jas...@gm...>]

Hey all,

Sorry for the cross-posting.

I am in the process of doing a number of things with the MAGEv1.0 for
Perl and Java.

First, the Perl MAGEstk has been overhauled and renewed - including
full support for ENUM values in attributes (and yes that includes type
checking). There is a verion that is ready to be tested - it would be
great if people could help test it for me.

Let me know if you'd like to run it thru your tests at your org, and
I'll tell you where to grab the tarball.

Second, I'm working on unifying the Ontology API's for both Java and Perl.

The current Perl ontology tests all run with the new version of the
Perl MAGEstk, but I need to finish adding the features -
unfortunately, I don't have a good idea *how* this API is intended to
be used. Kjell has given me some idea, but if others could help give
me a clue how you would use it in your code, that would be much
appreciated.

So for example my current task is adding the path based search
feature. I'm assuming people would be:
1) parsing an XML file into an in-mem data structure
2) finding a specific node of interest - say a BioSource
3) want to query the BioSource for the presence of some Ontology term...

how would that look like in the code? Help me flesh out this use-case
so I can design the API.

Thanks again for your help, jas.