Re: Programmers requested for dictionary
| From: | Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) <edccet@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 27, 2000, 20:29 |
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> Youn Ha Ley wabbe:
>
> <wry g> I've seen Shoebox mentioned before (as others have recently).
> Personally, I just type everything into .html files and do searches on pages via
> browser. It's been working so far, though it may prove inadequate when the
> file gets larger. OTOH I've seen browser search work very quickly with some
> pretty darn large pages, so...<shrug>
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HTML ;-)
Last time I was thinking in a XML schema to hold a one way dictionary, I would like
to develope it further besides tools that could coinvert my shoebox databases
in that format, or generate a reverse dictionary as well. An XSLT script would
be handy to represent the dictionary on the web for non XML capable browsers...
or even for non-plain presentation of the dictionary.
One more project in my TO DO list.
> It's definitely not for everyone, but it beats sheets of paper. My only regret is
> that it's not more portable (my antiquated laptop is still somewhat heavy and
> gives me backaches almost as surely as my German textbook).
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An example database would be:
<ConlangDic>
<head>
<!-- insert copyright and dictionary version and other stuff here>
</head>
<dictionary>
<entry type="verb" status="accepted">
<value>wabbi</value>
<definition>write</definition>
</entry>
<entry type="noun">
<value>wambito</value>
<definition>cat</definition>
<definition context="automobile">whel</definition>
</entry>
</dictionary>
</ConalngDic>
-- Carlos Th