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List:       mozilla-rdf
Subject:    Re: RDF Documentation - cleanup and plea
From:       Alec Flett <alecf () netscape ! com>
Date:       1999-08-11 18:58:17
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Dan Brickley wrote:

>
> For example I've nothing on the mail/news work -- is that still using
> the RDF APIs? Is Mork an RDF Datasource?  Best I can do without more
> insider help is something like a dumb query into CVS  for all
> references to nsIRDFDataSource [1] but that's not such a great approach.
>

Well, I can answer this:
We're using RDF as our view, not our model, to use MVC terms. So no, mork is
not a datasource... our mail data structures that sit on top of mdb is where
our datasource gets its information.

Currently, from the UI down, it looks like this:

Tree
RDF
Mail Datasources
Mail data structures (nsIMsgFolder, etc)
Mail Database (mdb)
Mork

Changes to the tree or other Asserts/etc that come through the RDF level go
to the mail datasource which manipulates the mail data structures, which in
turn often query and manipulate the mail database.

Changes to the mail database and mail data structures often get reflected
back up into RDF through our datasource.

I hope that answers your question....

                            Alec


>
> Basically:  send me a couple of sentences (and pointers into the src
> tree) if you're doing something with RDF that's not listed at
> http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/ and I'll add it to the page.
> Screenshots (emailed direct to me) particularly welcomed...
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
> [1] http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nsIRDFDataSource
>
> --
> Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk
> Institute for Learning and Research Technology http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
> University of Bristol,  Bristol BS8 1TN, UK.   phone:+44(0)117-9287096

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