Re: [ba-ohs-talk] TouchGraph WikiBrowser
At 12:37 PM 3/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: (01)
>>What ultimately makes sense here it an API built into the Wiki engine
>>that allows TouchGraph to access the database itself and fill out its
>>graph dynamically.
>
>Exactly. This would keep the graph updated in real time. Also, by
>gathering data about node/link types, the graph could be made to look more
>descriptive then the simple coloring scheme that is in place now.
>
>What that API will look like is still in the air, but I am considering
>queries that would return a simple XML file containing data about all
>links at radius 2. ... I guess that going node by node, i.e. radius of 1,
>would be a simpler way to go, but this would require multiple queries to
>the wiki DB, and it seems that doing so would take a longer amount of time.
>
>--Alex (02)
I modified the RewritingWiki (OurPlace) to drive MySQL (as opposed to its
flat files all saved in memory in a HashMap). Search radius would just
limit the number of times you do ResultSet.next() in the select
statement. That would be easy to implement. I don't know how this would
work with Xindice or Ozone. (03)
Jack (04)