[Gambas-user] Several years ago I finished a application for writers in gambas2 I need some advice for rewriting

Sat May 10 03:00:28 CEST 2014

No, XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a general purpose markup language.
HTML is a form of XML, XSL is a form of XML, MS Word, Excel documents and
Open Office  documents all use XML to help arrange meta data and data into
an easily parsed form.

Below is a sample of a made up XML Scheme. You can create your own or
search for existing XML schemes. I worked on an Art Gallery management
software package a while back and found there are industry standard schemes
for the Art Museum industries. You may find schemes for screen writing if
you look. If you create your own and want to promote it you can publish it
in the xml file and provide it to others who might want to integrate with
your software.

Sample:

<book>
   <meta>
      <author>John Paul Jones</author>
      <created>March 10th, 1987 08:42:13</created>
     <lastedit>March 23rd 1987 23:14:22</lastedit>
   </meta>
   <chapter ordinal="1">
      <title>An Introduction to Book XML</title>
      <subtitle>Or How to Create Your Own XML Scheme</subtitle>
      <body>
         <p>This is paragraph text....</p>
         <p>This is another paragraph text....</p>
         <p>This is yet another paragraph text....</p>
      </body>
      <ref>This is a list of references</ref>
      <footer>This is a footer section</footer>
   </chapter>
   <chapter ordinal="2">
      <title>XML What is it?</title>
      <body>
         <p>This is paragraph text....</p>
         <p>This is another paragraph text....</p>
         <p>This is yet another paragraph text....</p>
      </body>
      <ref>This is a list of references</ref>
      <footer>This is a footer section</footer>
   </chapter>
</book>

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Jb Skaggs <jbskaggs42 at ...626...> wrote:

> I thought XML was primarily for theming websites how would this help
> me? I have never used XML.  Could you point me to an example?
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Randall Morgan <rmorgan62 at ...626...>
> wrote:
> > If you are wanting to make this one (or more) file(s). You might consider
> > wrapping it in an XML scheme. Just a thought....
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Jb Skaggs <jbskaggs42 at ...626...> wrote:
> >
> >> This is basically a fancy editor that is broken down into scenes,
> chapters
> >>
> >> My question is the best way to track the texts.  I am keeping each
> >> scene's text in a directory dedicated to each chapter.
> >>
> >> the only actual texts are in each scene and a chapter may have any
> >> number of scenes, and a book may have any number of chapters.
> >>
> >> I need to be able to have a running text by total written for book,
> >> and by chapter, and by scene.
> >>
> >> Since the only text is actually entered by a scene, I am thinking that
> >> every time I save a scene's text the program should scroll through
> >> every ch and it's scenes and recompile the all texts into new total
> >> texts for the whole book, the whole chapter and the scenes.
> >>
> >> But the last time I released this software in one of the reviews there
> >> was a complaint that the program was too slow.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Basically a list of chapters that for each chapter is a list of
> >> scenes, and for each scene a text.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> JB Skaggs
> >>
> >>
> >>
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If you ask me if it can be done. The answer is YES, it can always be done.
The correct questions however are... What will it cost, and how long will
it take?