Re: "SMDL"--work in progress
Adam M. Donahue (adam@cyber-guru.com)
Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:52:42 -0400
> At 07:38 PM 6/7/98 -0400, Adam M. Donahue wrote:
> >...as an exercise I have begun
> >putting together a first XML DTD (hopefully to be put together) which
> >I'm tentatively calling the "Site Map Definition Language" or SMDL.
>
> Hi Adam. SMDL is a great idea. But you might want to take a look at the IBM
> XML Parser for Java (xml4j), which comes with a sample app, SiteOutliner,
> which does approximately what you're talking about. The parser scans a site
> and creates a CDF file which can then be viewed either with their own
> CDFViewer or with MSIE.
Yes, indeed. CDF appears to accomplish much of what I've
proposed. Still, I will work away on SMDL as a learning exercise.
(I completely forgot about CDF; I have worked with channels before
but it slipped my mind that, of course, it can be used to offer almost
precisely the site mapping functionality I had in mind.)
Adam
(BTW, sorry for all the typos in my previous message.)
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