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At 19:49 21/07/98 +0200, Andrea Anders wrote: >Hi, > >I want to create a learning environment for the internet Excellent! This is a really important area and one where there is a huge amount of scope. based on >SGML-Files. But SGML is unhandily, I think. (I use DynaWeb.) > >The learning environment should include a thesaurus, glossary, question & >answers (interactively), control of learning progress, aids of navigation and >orientation, make bookmarks, make annotations, searching for words. >Furthermore it should contain case studies, schedule, email, mailinglists >etc. I would strongly recommend XML - at least that is what I am going to use myself :-). here are some areas I know about: - we have implemented a robust scalable glossary/thesaurus tool (the Virtual Hyperglossary) at http://www.vhg.co.uk. This is based on XML (and its friends like XLink) and is designed to support any vertical sector (we already have projects in hand). It also supports multilinguality. It is based on ISO12620 so that by careful choice of dataCategorys you can create glossaries, dictionaries, thesauri, etc. We have used it on glossaries up to about 12000 terms with many levels of hierarchy. These can be handled by my (free) XML browser JUMBO if you have a reasonable amount of memory. The true power of the hyperglossary, however, is that it is designed to support multiple distributed glossaries, specifically through XLink (when the ink is dry on that spec). - Dan Brickley and colleagues (see XML-DEV a few months ago and probably www.sil.org) have developed a Tutorial Markup Language which should manage you multiple choice questions. - James Schoening and colleagues (through the P1484 project) are working on terminology for distance education and will be using XML. We - at the VSMS Nottingham - are developing XML tools for managing student information (including online submission and monitoring of work). There are doubtless lots of other projects at an early stage. > >I prefer XML, but you have much more experiences in electronic publishing >of XML-, HTML- and SGML-documents. Which document format is the best for >each component you think? > >A problem is I think that XML-documents can't be viewed via www-browser. >MSIE 5.0 is not able to handle true XML, isn`t it? I am told it does - MS are members of the W3C and have been actively supportive of XML. But it's very early days for the major browser manufacturers. HTH P. > >Thanks for help. > >Andrea > > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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