At 03:44 PM 8/23/2004, you wrote:
In other words, at the level of the XML, the OpenOffice solution would
look a lot the DocBook stuff I'm working with now, with the only
difference that it has to hold presentation display code as well.
When inserting citations, they would likely be pre-rendered (so as to not
force a constant recycling of the xslt process). If a user changes
styles, the xslt is run on the MODS document, and the citation-body
content is regenerated.
How's that?
That's great. Another reason OpenOffice rocks: its open process.
So imagine an application built on open XML and XSLT, using a rich
metadata standard, and built from the ground up to query and ingest remote
resources as easily as it does local records (the Library of Congress
catalog in fact serves MODS records). Many scholars would ditch Word for
OpenOffice in a heartbeat if they had a decent bibliographic tool, which
is the goal of this work.
Is the glass starting to fill? ;-)
It's getting there...!
Cheers,
Wendell
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