[tei-council] Desktop Roma App?

[Christian Wittern]

Amit Kumar <amitku at uiuc.edu> writes:

>> I'd say it was quite important to keep moving in parallel on all
>> fronts.
>> The opinion seemed strong that a 100% useable Roma was a prerequisite.
>
> Great then I have my work cut out for me :).

Thanks Amit for jumping at this.  It is important; our (my) main concern
was that we did not want to add to Sebastian's workload, which
constantly seems to be at 150% already.

>
> eXist or Saxon might be a good alternative, I am inclined to think
> that saxon
> will do the job. eXist is more attractive compared to dbXML I can
> embed it inside
> the app.

I did use roma totally locally on occasion by querying to my local
eXist. This seems to be the least painful and most promising path to
me, since you could then more or less "just" build a new UI around the
scripts without much fuss about whats behind them.

>
> Thanks; I will keep you all posted about my progress. I will start some
> work on this the week after.

Great.

best, chw

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 Christian Wittern 
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