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W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > > > Thierry Bezecourt wrote: > > > [Trying to understand how it works] To do that, if I'm correct, we > > would have to define a property set for mailing lists, where articles > > would be nodes, header fields would be properties of these nodes, the > > "References" header field would be used for links to other articles, > > and the "contents" would be the body of the article, which could > > contain links. Then the formatting could be done with DSSSL and Jade > > to produce an on-line archive. Is this a correct description of how > > groves could be used in the real world ? It does not seem very > > difficult. > > You've got it exactly. It's not particularly difficult, once you've got > the infrastructure for creating and managing grove nodes (e.g., PHyLIS, > pygrove, GroveMinder). It's just a simple matter of programming. That > is, if you know how to process the data you want to grovify, and you've > defined the grove representation of it, implementing the mapping from > raw data to grove nodes is not any more difficult than any other similar > programming task (e.g., using the DOM API, creating Java objects, > creating Python objects, etc.). > > The hard part will be parsing the mail messages, not creating the node > objects in memory. > > Cheers, > > E. > In fact this was the idea behind XMTP (http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net/documents/xmtp.htm, and http://www.xml.com/pub/98/12/consult98a.html) specifically to enable 'databasing' of SMTP messages in an XML repository (GroveBase). Jonathan Borden
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