[topicmapmail] ordering occurences...

[Kal Ahmed]

Hi Guy,

I sometime use a template-based approach for page layout - so I would
create a template with spaces for topics of type RSS feed, topics of
type wiki data etc. So the template is processed to "pull" data from
from a topic on-the-fly by filtering the list of occurrences
appropriately, rather than "pushing" data from the topic to an empty
page.

I guess that this would be doable even with the added wrinkle of
allowing users to modify the template. Of course, this approach works
less well if you have an open set of occurrence types so YMMV depending
on the application in question.

Cheers,

Kal

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 22:17, Guy Murphy wrote:
> Hiyas Steve,
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> Basically for some, but not all my occurences order is significant as it
> influences presentation on a page, and this can be altered by the end
> user... move and occurence up or down. So for instance if one occurences is
> types as an RSS feed and another as wiki data, I want the end user to be
> able to order which comes first on the page, the RSS feed or the wiki data.
> 
> I'll add an ordinal property to occurences I think. I don't really want to
> go massaging the data into either the type or value.
> 
> If you have any other ideas however I'm all ears.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Guy.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Pepper" <pepper@ontopia.net>
> To: <topicmapmail@infoloom.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] ordering occurences...
> 
> 
> > At 16:04 26.03.2003 +0000, Guy Murphy wrote:
> > >Is the order in which occurences for a topic are expressed significant?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > >If the order isn't significant, is there a prefered method for expressing
> > >the order of occurences?
> >
> > No. There are several ways you might do it, depending on
> > the situation. Can you give an example of kind of thing you
> > want to do?
> >
> > The approach used by the Omnigator is to display occurrences of
> > a topic grouped by occurrence type with the types ordered by
> > their sort names. Within each type there is lexical ordering:
> > for internal occurrences, the [value] property is used; for
> > external occurrences, the [reference] of the [resource] (i.e.
> > the URI) is used.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > --
> > Steve Pepper, Ontopian
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