Monday, December 13, 2004
An Introduction to Purple
An Introduction to Purple: "Purple is a small suite of quickly hacked tools inspired by Doug Engelbart's attempt to bootstrap the addressing features of his Augment system onto HTML pages. Its purpose is simple: produce HTML documents that can be addressed at the paragraph level. It does this by automatically creating name anchors with static and hierarchical addresses at the beginning of each text node, and by displaying these addresses as links at the end of each text node. 1A (02)
Purple consists of an XML DTD, an XSLT script for transforming the XML into HTML, various Perl scripts for preprocessing the XML, and a CGI script for displaying different versions of an HTML file. Its name was inspired by the little purple numbers found at the Bootstrap Institute's web site. 1B (03)
Purple is a makeshift solution to a relatively simple problem, and will hopefully be rendered obsolete very quickly by preliminary versions of Doug Engelbart's Open Hyperdocument System (OHS). 1C (04) "
Purple consists of an XML DTD, an XSLT script for transforming the XML into HTML, various Perl scripts for preprocessing the XML, and a CGI script for displaying different versions of an HTML file. Its name was inspired by the little purple numbers found at the Bootstrap Institute's web site. 1B (03)
Purple is a makeshift solution to a relatively simple problem, and will hopefully be rendered obsolete very quickly by preliminary versions of Doug Engelbart's Open Hyperdocument System (OHS). 1C (04) "
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