Re: [Planner] gnome-vfs (WebDAV) support?

[Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 10:12 +0100, Bryan Cole wrote:
> Great. I've been following the planner lists on GMane, but
> 'gmane.comp.gnome.apps.planner.user' does not appear to correspond to
> this list. Can anyone explain? Where can I join the developer list? The
> information on both (imendio and other) planner sites is ambiguous.

The planner lists can be found at:  http://lists.imendio.com

> XML, being good for tree type document data has advantages of it's own.
> Chopping and changing the branches of the xml-tree is easy to do. E.g.
> exporting a task (with sub-tasks) as a new project or combining multiple
> projects into a "master project" is easy with XML.

You obviously have more experience than I in this area.  I've
manipulated individual XML files, but not multiple files - for instance
to create a master timeline from a group of individual project files.

> > Here's a good article:  http://xml.sys-con.com/read/90126_1.htm
> > It uses Berkeley DB XML (open source) as its example NXD database, and
> > its very readable for the not-so-technical.
> 
> Yup, an excellent idea indeed. Seems like a great way to add a query
> interface without breaking the xml data-model.

I may look into this further as time permits to see if there really is a
significant advantage to using traditional databases such as PostgreSQL
and MySQL.  The obvious downside is that Berkeley DB XML isn't widely
used, so may not prove as popular a choice.

-- 
Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>