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RE: menuml -restaurant menu xml prototype app
- From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
- To: "'Sharma, Dhruv'" <Dhruv.Sharma@PenFed.org>,<xml-dev@l...>
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:55:11 +0100
Designing a vocabulary that can be used across a whole
industry requires much more effort than a vocabulary that can be used in-house
by one small company. Your analysis doesn't seem to have considered menus from
many different establishments. Examples of things you don't
cover:
* dishes that can only be ordered for a minimum number of
persons
* attributes of each dish (vegetarian, contains nuts,
hot/medium/mild, available as child's portion)
* options for a dish that can be specially requested (e.g.
medium/rare, potatoes/rice) either at the standard price or at extra
cost
* description of the dish in multiple
languages
* pricing in multiple currencies
* meat or fish dishes where the price is per
Kg
* wines, where there are typically different prices per bottle
or per glass, sometimes with different sizes of bottle or
glass
I would also expect to see an XSD or RelaxNG schema with
extensive comments, not a plain uncommented DTD.
I'm afraid this looks more like a quick student exercise than
a professional schema design informed by methodical data
analysis.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
Hi,
This posting is about an XML menu application I designed for my
parents restaurant years ago.
The word document describes the design and the zip file contains
the XML, and stylesheet to convert menu ml into PDF, HTML, and a JavaScript
calculator.
The idea is that even small restaurants can cheaply use XML to
manage their menus and be able to seamlessly convert them into multiple
formats.
The design of menu ml is simple and could be used to develop a
standard for restaurants to use help streamline
operations.
The calculator which can be generated from the menu in XML is handy
as if waiters, used Personal digital assistants (pdas), they can take orders
without having to mess up orders via handwriting and also the price is added
in automatically by the calculator leading to more accurate order processing
and operations.
This should help anyone in need of XML for menu to do restaurant
applications. The code (XML,xslt, dtd) is all in the zip and easy
to follow and change.
There is not much on xml and restaurants so hopefully this will
fill a niche or help others who wanted to do the same
thing.
best
Dhruv
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