The idea of "universal" processing via XSLT is moderately appealing. There's a big issue with poorly defined semantics, which always breaks a meta-data driven approache. The holy grail is perfect metadata from which all application software can be derived in a trivial way. I'm not sure this is ever achievable …
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The data layer of application architecture must be flexible enough to adapt to virtually any new data-driven functional requirement demanded by today's client..right...well to support such adaptability in client deployments, the data model must allow almost …
Mac #1 was a 1986 128K Mac, later upgraded to 1M Mac Plus, with external everything. Eventually a 70Mb SCSI hard drive. Bundled up with another just like it, it sold on eBay for shipping + a few bucks. I kept it running until 2001, when I finally shut it off …
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more ...>I'm not sure what the issue is, >and why "simple content manager" needs definition.
Neither was I until I read your reply.
I did not know enough to formulate the correct question. What I was struggling was when do you use simple hyperlinks/html vs a content mgr …
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>> A while back you mentioned the following book >> >> Book Title: Text, ConText, and HyperText Writing with and for the Computer edited by Edward Barrett >> ISBN 0-262-02275-3 >> >> I bought and then scanned through the book. I picked the following article to read semi carefully >> Hypertext: A Way of Incorporating …more ...
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Are any of these lkinks still live?
Why Python? Stay tuned. Why Zope? More to come.
HTML Parse Tree and related material - needs a proper Python install script.
PyWeb - needs some updates and a proper install script.
Additional projects:
Random Number Test Algorithms, plus an implementation of some higher-order …
more ...It's time for me to reconcile my web content and blogs among all the freebie hosting sites:
Mindspring and Roadrunner are duplicates, as a test of something or other. .Mac is built by the Apple iLife tools, and is a place to play with those. Geocities …
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