[Gambas-user] Several years ago I finished a application for writers in gambas2 I need some advice for rewriting
Jb Skaggs
jbskaggs42 at ...626...
Sat May 10 03:06:04 CEST 2014
Thanks I gotcha now:) The first time I wrote it using html markup so
I now understand what you mean. I was thinking you meant CSS even
though I was reading XML- brain fart on my part.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Randall Morgan <rmorgan62 at ...626...> wrote:
> 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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