The open-source Transliterature™ Project is Ted Nelson 's new design for a different kind of electronic document-- with quotations connected to their origins, with overlays creatable by anyone, and without embedded markup or imposed hierarchy (unlike XML).
Here's the first part of it.
The Little TransQuoter™
Designed by Ted Nelson, implemented by Andrew Pam.
©Copyright 2004-2005 Project Xanadu and Xanadu Australia .
The Little TransQuoter brings in quotations from all over the Net and concatenates them in a Web page, keeping each quotation connected to its source. Here's a sample .
Thus each quote is a "transquotation," since the original context is only a click away. (Note: jumps to original context may not show in some older browsers.)
All you have to do is list the spans of content you want to include, from anywhere in the Net. Feed the list to the TransQuoter, which will create the .VHTML page.
• Sample content span list . For viewing we show it with .txt suffix; to work with the TransQuoter, change it to .edl for Edit Decision List.
Sorry-- we do not presently supply an editor, but if you're clever you can do it by hand.
(Recommended: sourcing contents from Eprints server, which shows the exact context position of the quoted string, as in the sample.).
This code will be released under an Open Source license to be determined.
Most recent spec by Ted Nelson (at that time called "DeepLit Content Layer")
Python source code (7K)
Windows executable (979K)
Sample content list , shown as .txt so you can see it
Sample content list , as .edl for using with TransQuoter
The resulting TransQuotation Page created from the content list by the TransQuoter (suffix .tqhtml)
Note that this is just the TransLit content level. Markup and overlays will take awhile longer.
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