Open Source DeltaXML Project
This project is initiated to create a multi language DeltaXML format that can serve as a transfer format
between the standard DELTA format and (My)SQL databases.
The main goal is to create some Web based tools for interchange data between Natural language descriptions
and the standard DELTA format, and later to produce web based data processing tools.
This software is substantially derived from the DELTA software
authored by M.J Dallwitz, T.A. Paine and E.J Zurcher.
Standard tools
The project is using the browser as the interface and open source software like XAMPP (Apache Friends)
as the server part for the Web. Using PHP script language and MySQL database for development.
Any other server with PHP (5) and SQL can be used. XAMPP can be installed and used on a stand alone PC.
Standard tools like Microsofts XML editor can be used to view the XML data.
What has been done?
- a web based tool to transfer the three DELTA files (items,
chars & specs)
to DeltaXML has been created (beta 0.1, 16-06-2008)
- a different tool to make the the transfer back into DELTA has been created (beta 0.1, 16-06-2008)
- a data editor has been created, that can load the DeltaXML into the MySQL database,
edit the data and dump the data back into DeltaXML again (beta 0.1, 16-06-2008)
What must be done
- We need a tool to transfer Natural Language Descriptions into the Database
- Other tools to process data
- Find out if it is possible to use a subset of the SDD XML format for the DeltaXML definition
- Find out if it is useful to merge XDelta and the DeltaXML definitions
(because as far as I know XDelta has been defined but has never been used)
Examples
- The database structure can be viewed by
pressing here
(it is in text format and opens in your browser).
- An example of DeltaXML file (dump) of 5 characters in one group and 2 items can be viewed by
pressing here. XML can be viewed in your browser
like the text file above.
- The three DELTA files, mentioned above can be translated into DeltaXML by
pressing here. You can view the XML output in
your browser, but be awere it takes a while to load (parse the 860 kb data).
- The Web based DeltaXML Editor (DXedit.php) can be started by
pressing here
- The source is available from this site in a zip file (press here to load)
Eric Gouda
This page is under construction and updaed 15-11-2009