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RE: [edict-jmdict] Future System (Was: Moving forward .....)



[Stuart McGraw (RE: [edict-jmdict] Future System (Was: Moving forward .....)) writes:]
>> I have created a database on Jim's/William Maton's machine 
>> Arakawa and loaded it from a relatively recent copy if the 
>> JMdict XML file.  (The loader script was rewritten from ground 
>> up in Perl.)  The schema was slightly modified to support some 
>> of the things recently discussed here (amendments, audio 
>> clips, etc.)

Just on that point, I guess we should be using the English-only version
(available as "JMdict-e"). We won't be maintaining the other language
material as part of this project, at least not initially. It's
all being copied in from other projects.

>> I am now in the process of translating/rewriting the python TAL 
>> web page templates I wrote earlier into Perl TAL.  I am almost 
>> finished with the "show an entry" page.  I still have to rewrite 
>> the search and search results pages.  (At that point I'll be (in 
>> Perl) where I was last November in Python :-)  These pages I 
>> see as development tools, not really part the final system.  Then 
>> I plan to figure out the mechanics of actually doing the the updates 
>> (i.e. how to encapsulate all the database changes that constitute 
>> an update) and then those mechanics can be connected to a UI
>> in actual web pages as you described.
>> 
>> If anyone wants any of the code, rather than mailing it here
>> (where it seems not to get archived), perhaps it could be made 
>> available from Arakawa's or Monash's ftp (Jim?)  

Why not add it under your public_html directory, then people can access
it from http://www.arakawa.edrdg.org/~smg/.... ?

Cheers

Jim

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