Re: [phpesp-dev] "xml open source survey standard" for,importing/exporting and transforming it by xsl to any output media

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

Sounds like a great idea.  I'd be willing to participate as much as I
can.   Feel free to send me a email off list so we can workout details.

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 12:26 +0200, Tim wrote:
> He Open Source Survey developers out their,
> 
> what to you think about a "xml open source survey standard" for
> importing/exporting and transforming it by xsl to any output media
> 
> i am starting to work on a new project based on open survey pilot
> (opensurveypilot.org/).
> With the new release it will be gpl based an get a new project core
> team, us.
> 
> I started to work on a new survey display system based on xml/xsl.
> Now i realized that is even a lot more powerfull, if we make use it also
> as a xml based export/import base for questions/pages/surveys.
> I thing the xml-structure for a survey should be mostly the same for all
> surveys and surveysoftware. So why shouldn't we cooperate to develop
> this new "open source survey standard" ?
> It is also very independent from the software itself, so everybody can
> use it very easy.
> 
> I think it is a great idea and i would like to start with this right
> now. But i really would like to to this with many developers/projects
> together, to become more universal and powerfull. And i know thats this
> is a long term task.
> 
> What do you think? Has any of you allready developed a xml-structure for
> surveys?
> Do you have experience with php-xml/(xsl) development?
> Do you think it is a feature for your project?
> 
> Their is a commercial standard out their (http://www.triple-s.org/)
> which we could use to start.
> 
> best whishes and hopefully you will join our development..
> 
> Tim
> 
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