(XML) XML?
Jean-Marc Vanel
jmvanel at FREE.FR
Sun Dec 5 10:29:27 CET 1999
Wellcome in this list!
It seems that we are on the same wavelength, see my vision in :
http://jmvanel.free.fr/call.htm
I know little about Palm Pilot. But we should avoid being tied to proprietary systems and API, which doesn't prevent to work on Palm Pilot, having a compatibility API layer for proprietary calls. It seems that a lot can be done a standard browser, using Javascript, DOM, XSLT, with small applets to provide the rest of functionalities. Internet Explorer 5 will probably be soon XSLT-compliant, and Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) is advancing, having a modular, open-source architecture, and support for XML and CSS.
Dave Vieglais a écrit :
> Palm Pilots are eminently programmable.
With standard tools?
> Add a GPS... Add in a couple more data collection devices- and capture quantitative information at the same time- temperature, humidity, canopy gap fraction, even fish-eye photos (if you're into that sort of thing)...
Can you connect all those things on a palm pilot ?
> Sounds like a fun project to me.
Have you the time and/or sponsorship and/or skills to do that?
> The real key is datasets that are readily interoperable- that's what XML can provide.
Don't worry, datasets will come within a few month, using a simple linguistic approach to parse existing floristic texts (see http://jmvanel.free.fr/Samples/parsing.htm).
Cheers
Jean-Marc
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