| 4 | | We examine different software systems by means of their main functions and features for our extended user requirements in the area of web based access to XML-documents. The main new requirements are: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | We limit the software selection to the four systems Magnolia, mediaWiki, eXist and eSciDoc: |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | || ||Magnolia||mediaWiki||eXist||eSciDoc|| |
| | 8 | ||Webpage|| [http://www.magnolia-cms.com/ here] || [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki here] || [http://exist.sourceforge.net/ here] || [https://www.escidoc.org/ here] || |
| | 9 | ||MPIWG installation|| see [http://hartmutkern.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ here] || see this [https://it-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/tracs/mpdl-project-content TRAC] || see [http://mpdl-proto.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/mpdl/query.xql MPDL system] || test system: see [http://pubman.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/pubman/ Pubman] || |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | We examine the different software systems by means of their main functions and features for our extended user requirements in the area of web based access to XML-documents. The main new requirements are: |
| 34 | | ||User management||++||++||-||+|| |
| 35 | | ||Version control system||++||++||-||+|| |
| 36 | | ||Index / Query system||++||++||++||++|| |
| 37 | | ||Many document formats (xml, pdf, doc, html)||++||++||+||++|| |
| 38 | | ||Discussions / Blogs||++||++||-||-|| |
| | 38 | ||User management|| ++ || ++ || - || + || |
| | 39 | ||Version control system|| ++ || ++ || - || + || |
| | 40 | ||History presentation|| ++ || ++ || - || - || |
| | 41 | ||Index / Query system|| ++ || ++ || ++ || ++ || |
| | 42 | ||Many document formats (xml, pdf, doc, html)|| ++ || ++ || + || ++ || |
| | 43 | ||Multimedia support|| ++ || ++ || - || + || |
| | 44 | ||''Discussions / Blogs''|| ++ || ++ || - || - || |
| 44 | | ||Predefined extensions / templates||++||++||-||-|| |
| 45 | | ||Programming||++ ^[#note1 1]^||++ ^[#note2 2]^||++ ^[#note3 3]^||+ ^[#note4 4]^|| |
| 46 | | ||Index / Query system||++||++||++||++|| |
| 47 | | ||Many document formats (xml, pdf, doc, html)||++||++||+||++|| |
| 48 | | ||Notes / Annotations||-||-||-||-|| |
| | 50 | ||Predefined extensions / templates|| ++ || ++ ^[#note1 1]^ ^[#note1 2]^ || - || - || |
| | 51 | ||Powerful programming|| ++ ^[#note3 3]^ || ++ ^[#note4 4]^ || ++ ^[#note5 5]^ || + ^[#note6 6]^ || |
| | 52 | ||Easy application development|| + || + || + || - || |
| | 53 | ||Index / Query system|| ++ || ++ || ++ || ++ || |
| | 54 | ||XQuery / XPath support|| + ^[#note7 7]^ || + ^[#note7 7]^ || ++ || + ^[#note7 7]^ || |
| | 55 | ||XML / XSL support|| + ^[#note7 7]^ || + ^[#note7 7]^ || ++ || + ^[#note7 7]^ || |
| | 56 | ||Notes / Annotations|| - || - || - || - || |
| | 57 | ||''Web page editor''|| ++ || ++ || - || - || |
| | 58 | |
| 51 | | [=#note1 1]: Freemarker, Java Server Pages, XSL/CSS, limited XPath (works also in JCR 2.0 ?)[[br]] |
| 52 | | [=#note2 2]: php, Java over JavaBridge [[br]] |
| 53 | | [=#note3 3]: Java, XQuery / XPath, XSL / CSS [[br]] |
| 54 | | [=#note4 4]: Java [[br]] |
| | 61 | [=#note1 1]: footnotes: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes internal], [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite Cite] [[br]] |
| | 62 | [=#note2 2]: [http://wikisource.org presentation of old books] [[br]] |
| | 63 | [=#note3 3]: Freemarker, Java Server Pages, XSL/CSS, limited XPath (works also in JCR 2.0 ?)[[br]] |
| | 64 | [=#note4 4]: php, Java over JavaBridge [[br]] |
| | 65 | [=#note5 5]: Java, XQuery / XPath, XSL / CSS [[br]] |
| | 66 | [=#note6 6]: Java [[br]] |
| | 67 | [=#note7 7]: has to be implemented in Java (relative easy) [[br]] |
| 58 | | ||Get XML page fragment||-||-||++||-|| |
| 59 | | ||Language technology||-||-||++||-|| |
| 60 | | ||Document upload||++||++||- ^[#note1 1]^||+ ^[#note2 2]^|| |
| 61 | | ||Web viewer||+ ^[#note2 2]^||+ ^[#note2 2]^||++||+ ^[#note2 2]^|| |
| | 71 | ||Get XML page fragment|| - || - || ++ || - || |
| | 72 | ||Language technology|| - || - || ++ || - || |
| | 73 | ||Document upload|| ++ || ++ || - ^[#note1 1]^ || + ^[#note2 2]^ || |
| | 74 | ||Web viewer || + ^[#note2 2]^ || + ^[#note2 2]^ || ++ || + ^[#note2 2]^ || |
| 67 | | |
| 68 | | |
| 69 | | [[br]] |
| 70 | | [[br]] |
| 71 | | [[br]] |
| 72 | | ### temporary stuff ### |
| 73 | | |
| 74 | | Functions which are not mandadory for our requirements are marked italic. |
| 75 | | |
| 76 | | === Magnolia === |
| 77 | | * Advantages |
| 78 | | * version control system with easy usable history functions (commercial EE version) |
| 79 | | * many installations and users worldwide |
| 80 | | * multimedia support (image, sound, video) |
| 81 | | * Disadvantages |
| 82 | | * user interface: all web pages have to be implemented |
| 83 | | * XQuery support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy) |
| 84 | | |
| 85 | | === mediaWiki === |
| 86 | | * Advantages |
| 87 | | * version control system with easy usable history functions |
| 88 | | * many installations and users worldwide |
| 89 | | * user interface |
| 90 | | * already included (Wiki web pages) |
| 91 | | * simple (e.g. for data uploads) |
| 92 | | * user know the Wiki system |
| 93 | | * no extra web server |
| 94 | | * many extensions / templates |
| 95 | | * footnotes: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes internal], [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite Cite] |
| 96 | | * [http://wikisource.org presentation of old books] |
| 97 | | * multimedia support (image, sound, video) |
| 98 | | * Disadvantages |
| 99 | | * XML/XSL/CSS support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy) |
| 100 | | * XQuery support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy) |
| 101 | | |
| 102 | | === eXist + Zope === |
| 103 | | * Advantages |
| 104 | | * some installations and users worldwide |
| 105 | | * XQuery/XPath support |
| 106 | | * Disadvantages |
| 107 | | * not scalable for many documents (> 1000 XML documents) |
| 108 | | * not really stable |
| 109 | | * many system crashes at startup time (up to 2 days) |
| 110 | | * sometimes system crash when a document is uploaded |
| 111 | | * no usable version control system included, no history functions |
| 112 | | * user interface: all web pages have to be implemented |
| 113 | | |
| 114 | | === eSciDoc === |
| 115 | | * Disadvantages |
| 116 | | * not many users, installations and developers |
| 117 | | * performance of many queries not tested |
| 118 | | * very complicated: much work for administration and development (API etc.) |
| 119 | | * version control system: no easy usable history functions |
| 120 | | * user interface: all web pages have to be implemented |
| 121 | | * not many extensions / templates |
| 122 | | * XQuery support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy) |
